President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House next month alongside Republican majorities in the House and Senate, but they shouldn't expect smooth sailing when it comes to implementing their agenda and preferred policies.

That is because Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), in conjunction with President Joe Biden, preemptively worked to sabotage the incoming GOP agenda by way of stacking the federal courts with hundreds of new left-leaning judges, the Daily Beast reported.

Schumer and his fellow "resistance"-minded Democrats will now be counting on those Democrat-appointed and confirmed judges to block or strike down as unlawful the executive orders issued by Trump and legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Congress.

Schumer relying on Democrat-appointed judges to block Trump

Politico Playbook reported on Thursday that Sen. Schumer was proud in a recent exclusive interview of his efforts to load the federal judiciary with judges who will presumptively act in a partisan manner to prevent President-elect Trump and the incoming GOP Congress from finding any success with their policy agenda.

"I don’t know exactly what [Trump will] do. But I can tell you this: The judiciary will be one of our strongest -- if not our strongest -- barrier against what he does," Schumer told the outlet.

Of his plan to work with President Biden to appoint and confirm as many judges as possible in four years, the Democratic Leader said, "When we started out, we knew it would be a very difficult job to do more than Trump had done. But we did: We got 235 -- more than a quarter of the federal judiciary was appointed by our Senate and by the president."

"We knew that getting more judges on the bench would help protect our legislative record," he continued of the expectation that the left-leaning judges will stop Trump and Republicans from undoing or otherwise countering what Democrats have accomplished over the past four years.

Schumer wants Democratic judges, but not MAGA, to legislate from the bench

In that Politico interview, Sen. Schumer was asked which Democratic achievements would be the first to be challenged by the incoming administration and new Congress, and he replied, "They’re going to come after everything."

"They have so many different parts of MAGA: the people who are anti-women’s rights; the people who are anti-environment; the people who are anti-working people rights and union rights; the people who are anti-the consumer," he continued. "They’re going to use the judiciary in every way they can."

As for balancing the competing priorities of passing legislation and confirming judges, Schumer said, "When I set out, I wanted to do both: Have a major legislative record, but at the same time, get as many judges confirmed as possible because we knew that Trump had loaded the bench up with a lot of MAGA judges and achieving balance was important."

"And the more the better," he noted. "In a time when there’s more legislative gridlock and there’s an attempt to use the judiciary to actually legislate, having judges that are not MAGA judges, that are not extreme judges, is more important than it’s ever been."

Schumer added that judicial confirmations were ramped up over the past two years because "it became much more important, because we saw that we would not be able to accomplish more legislatively. And we also saw that the hard right was gearing up to use the bench in case after case to achieve their goals."

Biden proud of judicial confirmations

President Biden, meanwhile, celebrated the milestone of 235 confirmed federal judges with a statement last week that highlighted their "distinguished legal, judicial, and academic careers" as well as their demographic diversity and broad range of backgrounds and lived experiences.

"Judges matter. They shape the everyday lives of Americans, preserving our freedoms and defending our liberties. They hear cases and issue rulings on whether Americans can cast their ballots, whether workers can unionize and make a living wage for their families, and whether children can breathe clean air and drink clean water," he concluded. "I am proud of the legacy I will leave with our Nation’s judges. And I am proud of those who have stepped forward and heeded the call to serve."