House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries knows exactly what Democrats plan to do to the Supreme Court. He just won’t say it out loud.
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Jeffries was asked point-blank by host Kristen Welker if he backs adding more justices to the high court. The New York Democrat had just spent days touting his support for “dramatic Supreme Court reform” — the same language former VP Kamala Harris used when she signaled support for court-packing.
Jeffries didn’t answer.
Instead, he pivoted to attacking Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over manufactured ethics scandals pushed by corporate media. He complained the court needs “an ethical code of conduct so that they’re not able to simply conduct themselves in ways that are inconsistent with the notion in this country that no one is above the law.”
“No one is above the law” — unless you’re a Democrat pushing court-packing to overturn rulings you don’t like.
Jeffries then went after the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision, which blocked racial gerrymandering in redistricting. He claimed the ruling “unleashed Jim Crow-like tactics” by requiring colorblind redistricting — a position he says is “inconsistent with the law and with the Constitution” but predictably didn’t bother explaining how.
Then he gave the game away.
After finishing his anti-Callais screed, Jeffries pledged that Rep. Jamie Raskin and other leading Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee “are going to take the lead on what dramatic reform of the Supreme Court looks like.”
That sentence is the tell.
Raskin and Rep. Hank Johnson are two of the party’s biggest court-packing supporters. Both have sponsored legislation to increase the number of justices from nine to 13 — conveniently adding the four seats needed for leftists to acquire an ideological majority.
Both congressmen have run interference for court-packing during committee hearings and recently opposed a constitutional amendment to keep the court at nine justices.
If Jeffries doesn’t support Democrats’ court-packing efforts, why didn’t he say so when Welker asked him directly?
And if he opposes such a plan, why would he put two of the party’s most ardent court-packing supporters in charge of this “reform”?
The questions answer themselves.
What Jeffries is doing is no different than what Joe Biden did in 2020 or what Abigail Spanberger did last year — an attempt to deceive voters with a “moderate”-sounding position, with every intention of governing hard-left once given power.
The left has long viewed the Supreme Court as a mechanism of power meant to bypass the constitutional amendment process. Rather than convince Americans to support their policies, leftists used activist justices to enshrine their agenda into law via overreaching rulings.
With the current court largely working to overturn many of those bad precedents, that path is no longer available to the left.
As such, Democrats have taken to launching a full-out assault on the conservative justices — all in an effort to get the outcomes they want.
Jeffries may think he’s being coy enough with his language to obscure his party’s ultimate endgame.
His remarks are further proof of how destructive Democrats plan to be if given power this fall.
