In any other age, vocalizing illiterate nonsense about our system of governance might be an embarrassing career-ending flub. Today, it’s the norm among progressives.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaking at a press conference on the Democratic Party's redistricting efforts on May 13, 2026. The story plays out the same way virtually every time.that they contended is needed to preserve “democracy.
”Frustrated, Democrats ratchet up the anger, promising to “reform” the judiciary that stands in their way. Rep. Ro Khanna recently argued on the House floor that the next Democratic White House “does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar.
We need action.
“We need term limits for justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Supreme Court from 9 to 13. ”Republicans run both houses and the White House, after all; they couldAccording to Khanna, there’s nothing procedurally or constitutionally improper about it. Indeed, it’s imperative.
Surely, the congressman isn’t proposing that one party should be empowered to operate under a different set of rules than the other? Of course, we all know that if President Donald Trump packed the court, progressives would shriek “fascism” until they had a mass stroke.
Virginia Supreme Court stopped the Democrats’ unconstitutional gerrymandering scheme , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now the favorite Democratic Party presidential prospect 2028 in a number of polls, claimed that the court “didn’t overturn a map” but “overturned an election. ” “The power of the American people, that should be the ultimate check on all three branches,” she declared. In any other age, vocalizing illiterate nonsense about our system of governance might be an embarrassing career-ending flub.
At this point, I’m not even sure most of her audience understands why this crass majoritarian argument is un-American. Then again, none of the left’s political objections to the court are grounded in anything resembling a legal argument. Progressives grouse about “lawless judges” because they make no distinction between failing to get their way and criminality.
Democrats never even bother even mentioning the Constitution in their critiques of the Supreme Court — which is weird, considering that the court’s most vital responsibility is upholding it. , ensuring that Louisiana could not create race-based districts as the law demands, Khanna claimed that “moral light” of the court had been “extinguished.
”The left’s case for “reform” centers around the specious idea that the court is failing because it doesn’t adhere to their political vision or the vision of the fleeting majority. History has shown that one of the first propositions of authoritarians is to destroy any judicial system that upholds the law.
“We’re going to have to explore judicial reform state by state and at the federal level,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently said, proposing a nationwide takeover of the courts. They mean everything: One of the ideas Democrats are throwing around is to have Virginia’s state legislature lower the mandatory retirement age for Virginia’s Supreme Court to 54, the age of the youngest current justice, then replace the entire court with leftists to rubber-stamp one of the most radical gerrymandering schemes in the history of the republic.
For decades, Democrats have made a mockery of confirmation hearings, smearing originalist justices as sexual predators and radicals to preemptively discredit their decisions. For years, progressive activist groups propped up by wealthy activists have been cooking up imaginary scandals about justices and laundering them through faux journalistic operations. No leftist has ever offered a scintilla of evidence that any of the “conservative” justices have altered their judicial philosophy or approach for any personal benefit.
If Democrats end up packing the Supreme Court, it will devolve into another partisan branch — with each party adding new justices until the institution is useless. Term limits would immediately be struck down as unconstitutional: Article III bestows lifetime appointments on justices to shield the high court from the vagaries and fleeting pressures of political debate — and from demagogues like Khanna.
Not every institution in American life needs to reflect fleeting mainstream opinions .be conservative: Something needs to buttress against the recklessness of majoritarianism. All this Democratic drama is just a transparent attempt to circumvent the constitutional order. David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. X: @davidharsanyi
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