Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat in the U.S. House, has turned on three Supreme Court justices he may need in some future dispute, lashing out at them as “far-right extremists.”
That would be Ketanji Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the three justices who typically agree to push leftist causes at the court.
The tongue-lashing resulted from that high court’s decision not to interfere in a state court’s ruling that a Democrat scheme to rearrange congressional districts, giving 10 of the 11 in the state of Virginia to Democrats, had to be thrown out because the Democrats failed to follow the requirements of the state constitution.
There were no dissents in the unsigned order that the court issued, meaning not even Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan could muster the partisanship to support the Democrats’ illegal move.
Jeffries anger was immediately obvious: “The American people will decide who controls Congress in November. Not far-right extremists on the Supreme Court,” he threatened.
The American people will decide who controls Congress in November.
Not far-right extremists on the Supreme Court.
Send them all a powerful message that enough is enough.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) May 16, 2026
The Democrat move in Virginia was part of a multi-state redistricting war that is going on. Analysts suggest that since Democrats already had gone so extreme in redistricting, the Republican party, now catching up, likely will come out of this fracas with an additional dozen or so seats in Congress.
The Supreme Court’s decision rejected Virginia Democrats’ demands to ignore the state constitution and let them have 10 of the state’s 11 districts.
A commentary at Twitchy pointed out Jeffries previously threatened “maximum warfare” against Republicans.
But that, the report said, “backfired massively (and somewhat hilariously) on the Democrats, including the redistricting referendum that the Virginia Supreme Court found to be in violation of the state’s Constitution.”
Reports confirmed those three words about the Supreme Court ruling likely will be suppressed by Jeffries. That ruling said, “The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a long-shot effort by Virginia Democrats to revive a new, voter-approved congressional map they wanted to use in this year’s midterm elections. The brief decision with no dissents leaves in place a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court that found legal flaws in the process leading up to the referendum.”
Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson rejected Virginia Dems’ appeal as well … they’re far-right?
Hakeem.
You just embarrassed yourself and your party.
You should apologize and resign. https://t.co/jHzphoLNtI— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 16, 2026
