By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2026-08-19 23:02:13 | Updated at 2026-08-19 23:17:37
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US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries attends the NABJ student projects press conference at the 2026 National Association Of Black Journalists Convention at Atlanta Marriott Marquis on August 13, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he isn’t backing the Democratic Socialists of America’s goals, but he is declaring war on the Supreme Court.
Does he think DSAers will be satisfied with that — and sane Americans won’t be alarmed?
Jeffries stressed Sunday that he doesn’t “support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated by the DSA itself.”
Yet he also warns that Democrats will “push for dramatic reform of the Supreme Court,” because its “conservative, right-wing majority” is “a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.”
Huh? The Supremes have sometimes come down on the administration’s side, but they’ve also slapped down President Donald Trump repeatedly — on his bid to upend birthright citizenship, the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, his beloved tariffs and a whole lot more.
So while it’s nice that the House Democrats’ leader isn’t embracing the DSA’s most outrageous plans — like scrapping the court altogether, along with the Senate and even the presidency — waging war on the high court is still outrageous.
Worse, Jeffries is putting rabid-left Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in charge of his anti-SCOTUS agenda, a clear sign that he won’t hesitate to keep delegitimizing the court simply because it declines to impose the progressive agenda.
He declared “a variety” of reforms to be “on the table,” from blatantly unconstitutional efforts to impose term limits or Congress’ idea of ethics rules on the justices, to simply packing the court with lefties so conservatives can never prevail.
Yet Jeffries is playing a fool’s game: Socialists won’t be satisfied with a mere call for court-packing, while centrists will see it for what it is — a bid to turn a bastion of our 250-year-old democratic republic into an enforcer of left-wing ideology.
Protecting “democracy” by destroying a bulwark of democratic self-government and the rule of law.
Yes, Jeffries is desperate to fend off the left’s bid to oust him from leadership: DSAers already chant, “You’re next,” whenever they see him, and of course lots of Democrats are furious over recent high-court rulings.
Yet promoting feeding the radicals’ attack on our very form of government can only empower them in the long run.
If Democratic leaders want to stop the far left’s takeover of their party, they’re going to have to reject its agenda and offer a sane alternative that genuinely appeals to the broader public.
Too bad that appeasing the left seems to be Jeffries’ idea of “leadership.”
