Hakeem Jeffries’s bid to win over Supreme – Latest News
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he isn’t backing the Democratic Socialists of America’s objectives, however he’s declaring warfare on the Supreme Court.
Does he assume DSAers can be happy with that — and sane Americans received’t be alarmed?
Jeffries burdened Sunday that he doesn’t “support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated by the DSA itself.”
Yet he additionally warns that Democrats will “push for dramatic reform of the Supreme Court,” as a result of its “conservative, right-wing majority” is “a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.”
Huh? The Supremes have typically come down on the administration’s aspect, however they’ve additionally slapped down President Donald Trump repeatedly — on his bid to upend birthright citizenship, the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, his beloved tariffs and a complete lot more.
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So whereas it’s good that the House Democrats’ chief isn’t embracing the DSA’s most outrageous plans — like scrapping the courtroom altogether, together with the Senate and even the presidency — waging warfare on the high courtroom continues to be outrageous.
Worse, Jeffries is placing rabid-left Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in charge of his anti-SCOTUS agenda, a clear signal that he received’t hesitate to keep delegitimizing the courtroom just 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 time period limits or Congress’ concept of ethics guidelines on the justices, to merely packing the courtroom with lefties so conservatives can by no means prevail.
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Yet Jeffries is taking part in a idiot’s sport: Socialists received’t be happy with a mere call for court-packing, whereas centrists will see it for what it’s — a bid to flip 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 determined to fend off the left’s bid to oust him from management: DSAers already chant, “You’re next,” each time they see him, and of course heaps of Democrats are livid over latest high-court rulings.
Yet selling feeding the radicals’ assault on our very type of authorities can solely empower them within the long run.
If Democratic leaders need to stop the far left’s takeover of their social gathering, they’re going to have to reject its agenda and offer a sane different that genuinely appeals to the broader public.
Too dangerous that appeasing the left appears to be Jeffries’ concept of “leadership.”
