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(CNSNews.com) -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that when it comes to the list of potential Supreme Court nominees prepared by the Federalist Society for President Donald Trump, the Democrats "will fight it all the way."

Schumer added that "we must not" have another "hard right Supreme Court nominee who won't follow precedent." Schumer made his remarks at a press conference about the Supreme Court's Sept. 27 decision, which said workers who are not part of the union do not have to pay fees to fund collective bargaining.

At a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, Democratic leader Schumer said, “the golden age of America was when America was unionized, when the middle-class income, and pensions, and healthcare advanced.”

“The hard right wants to take it away,” he said. “They know they can never pass this stuff even with a conservative House and Senate. So, they use the one elected body -- one non-elected body, the Supreme Court.”

“We Democrats aren’t going to let that happen,” said Schumer. “That’s why yesterday we introduced a bill that ensures that public employees -- teachers, nurses, healthcare providers, firefighters, police officers, EMT’s, librarians, correctional officers and so many others -- have the right to organize and act concertedly and bargain collectively in states that do not currently afford them these basic rights.”

He continued, “My colleagues will describe the bill in more detail, but what happened in the Supreme Court [on Wednesday] shows why we must not have another hard-right Supreme Court nominee who will not follow precedent, and put their own ideological stamp on issue after issue.”

“Janus [Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 16-1466] illustrates that and should be a […] call to all working people, to make sure that another nominee who will do that -- and you can be certain, that anyone who made that list of 25 [court nominees] culled by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, will move to remove even more workers rights.”

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“We will fight it all the way,” said the senator. “And we will fight as hard as we can to undo Janus with the legislation we are introducing today.”

President Trump, as a candidate, released a list of originalist, Constitutionalist judges, largely assembled by the Federalist Society, from which he would select nominees for the Supreme Court. Some of the people on the list include Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, D.C. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, 11th Circuit Apeals Court Judge William Pryor, and Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell.

On Wednesday, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that nonunion workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. Janus argued that his $45 monthly fee to the American Federation of State was a violation of his First Amendment rights because the fees were going towards political advocacy.

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This decision overruled a 40-year-old court case, in what some are calling the most significant court decision concerning collective-bargaining rights in a long time.

Expressing his objection to the ruling, Senator Schumer said the decision was “a gut punch” to working people, as well as calling the decision itself “a despicable decision.” Schumer also said that overturning the 40-year-old precedent was based on a “flimsy, almost made up First Amendment justification to meet their [Republicans] ideological needs.”