The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has spurred a group of elected officials in New York to urge Sen. Chuck Schumer to "step upwardly to the plate" and publicly back up the court's expansion or face a tough fight to go on his Senate seat when he is up for re-election in 2022.

Calculation to the chorus of Democrats concerned almost the consequences of having the Supreme Courtroom tipped 6-3 in favor of conservatives following the swearing in of Barrett to the lifetime mail service, is a strongly-worded letter to the Senate minority leader signed by a coalition of 22 progressive New York Urban center and country officials.

The alphabetic character chosen on Schumer to counter the number of "right-fly ideologues" on the state's highest judicial body, which it described as non beingness an impartial arbiter of whether policies enacted past branches of government were in keeping with the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws.

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Senator Chuck Schumer at a protest on October 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. New York progressives take called on him to push for an expansion of the Supreme Court. Jemal Countess/Getty Images

The missive referred in particular to the almost progressive elements of the Affordable Care Act which it said had been "gutted" by the courtroom. "In doing and so the court has shown itself unwilling to tolerate even Democrats' nigh conservative gestures at reform. Whatsoever agenda in a potential Biden administration will be doomed to the same fate," the alphabetic character said.

"That cannot happen. This courtroom is illegitimate," information technology said, calling for congressional Democrats to pass legislation to expand the courtroom and that if Joe Biden were to win the election, he "must sign it into police force."

It said that should the Democrats take the Senate, as Senate majority leader, Schumer must allow the legislation to go a vote. If this happened, he should "publicly support the expansion of the Supreme Courtroom," whose number was not constitutionally mandated.

"As leader of the Senate Democratic conference, Chuck Schumer needs to step up to the plate...anything less is unacceptable, and nosotros commit to organizing to hold him accountable should he fail to practise so," the letter said.

The letter was organized by member-elect of the Land Assembly, District 36, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, and signed by him and 21 other officials who included members and members-elect of the State Assembly and the State Senate.

I was proud to organize this letter alongside my @nycDSA comrades & our progressive allies.

This court is illegitimate. We will non stand past while its right-fly fanatics destroy legal abortion, labor power, ceremonious rights & social insurance.@SenSchumer - you can’t either. https://t.co/PTH6BlM6pr

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 27, 2020

With Schumer expected to seek a fifth term as New York senator in November 2022, Mamdani told Newsweek that "nothing is off the tabular array" regarding what action the letters' signatories and supporters might take should the senator not push difficult enough for a Supreme Court expansion. This could include protests, canvassing, or taking him on at the side by side election.

"I tin can tell yous quite confidently if this is not something that Senator Schumer brings frontwards and so I would gladly support a challenger on the ground of this issue. That is zip personal against the Senator, it is but almost increasing the stakes hither," he said.

"People might say 'why not wait until after the election?' We have to make very clear that this is an issue even in the midst of everything else that is going on that we are laser focused on, and nosotros need to accept representation that understands that," he told Newsweek.

Schumer has pulled no punches in his criticism of the date of Barrett telling lawmakers on Mon: "The American people will never forget this blatant act of bad faith." Still the letter by the progressives calls for this rhetoric to be backed up by action.

"If Senator Schumer becomes the majority leader and he is in control of what legislation reaches the floor, we need him to advocate for this stance and bring this piece of legislation onto the floor for a vote," Mamdani said.

"If he is the minority leader, we still need him to put this forward as his belief because this is not something that is expedient, this is something that is critical of achieving our goals of nobility beyond this country," he added. Newsweek has contacted Schumer's office for annotate.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has side-stepped the consequence of Supreme Courtroom expansion, but did tell CBS News that if elected, he would put together a bipartisan commission to provide recommendations on reforming the Supreme Courtroom.