Posted on 04/30/2026 7:42:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dan Abrams ripped House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Thursday for calling the U.S. Supreme Court “illegitimate.”
Jeffries made the comments after the court ruled 6-3 to erode the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that gave voters the ability to challenge electoral maps as “racially discriminatory.”
“Today’s ruling by this illegitimate Supreme Court strikes a blow against the Voting Rights Act and is designed to undermine the ability of communities of color all across this country to elect their candidate of choice,” Jeffries said at a Wednesday press conference.
President Donald Trump responded on Truth Social, calling Jeffries “a Low IQ individual, who should not be allowed to talk that way about one of the Greatest Institutions anywhere in the World. He should withdraw the statement, IMMEDIATELY!”
Abrams, the founder of Mediaite and the host of The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel, called out the ranking Democrat in the House for attacking the credibility of the high court.
“Shame on Hakeem Jeffries! Shame on him for referring to this court as illegitimate!” Abrams said on The Dan Abrams Show. — during a conversation with Sean Trende, senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics.
“You can disagree with the ruling. You can believe it’s a bad ruling. You can believe it has an impact you disagree with and believe is dangerous. But it is even more dangerous to start calling this court illegitimate. The minute we have partisans on both sides referring to this court as illegitimate, we are going to have no arbiter of anything in this country. You want to talk about a constitutional crisis. It’s gonna come because people will think of the court as illegitimate!”
Abrams, during his commentary, noted that he has often criticized Trump and other conservatives in the past for attacking the credibility of judges and the courts. But on Thursday he made clear he thinks Jeffries and others on the left deserve the same callout when they make similar remarks.
It is so dangerous — and, by the way, I get very upset at the Right when they use similar language about judges in this country. This is not a partisan issue. This is a court that just overturned Trump’s tariffs. This is a court that rejected the conservative independent legislature theory that would’ve been hugely impactful for Republicans. This is a court that has rejected some of the administration’s arguments about immigration. Does that mean that this isn’t a conservative court? No, it’s a very conservative court! But the minute you start referring to it as illegitimate, you are creating the constitutional crisis. So, in this particular case, Trump is right to blast Hakeem Jeffries for saying that. Now, it’s total hypocrisy from him, considering what he says about judges in this country and suggesting they’re effectively illegitimate arms of the Democratic party, etc. But for those of us who aren’t just on one team or the other, we have to be out there telling people like Hakeem Jeffries this is not okay.
Watch the clip above via The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM.
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Except it's the truth. The left's philosophy of judicial appointment is to find people who will make the ruling that agrees with them first, then find the justification for it after. That's what the "living document" concept gives us.
I’m not going to be hypocritical (this time) and say I’m sorry for the SCOTUS. They should have noted 1) leftists connected to the Dems made all night noise assaults and threats to kill Kavanaugh and his family in their home and 2) there have been many threats to neuter the Court if the Dems get control by packing the court and downgrade it’s power.
Thus....they, especially Kavanaugh should have sought revenge. NEVER rule against Trump on the tariffs and the various delays by federal district judges for deportations and other matters.
Are they stupid? (Of course the “liberal leaning Brown Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan ARE stupid.)
This Jeffries dude is dumb as a rock. Can we mandate right-side bell curve IQs for congress?
Time Magazine: Jeffries said the 2016 election was ‘illegitimate’ because of Russian influence.
Maybe he heard a lot of the word “illegitimate” as a tot around his relatives at home. (No apology for that insult-—Hakeem is a dangerous threat to our country and said we are now in all out warfare.)
“This Jeffries dude is dumb as a rock.”
That’s an insult to rocks.................
`No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first—verdict afterwards.’ `Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly.
The three hags.....they'll do whatever the party says.
Well, the SC does have an illegitimate member...
One that was auto-penned in....
Just sayin...
“Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time!” - Hakeem Jeffries
The Democrat war on the United States goes on unabated. It’s a color revolution.
He wouldn’t be calling them illegitimate if they were ruling in favor of the democrats and their massive fraud machine.
Jeffries is the male version of AOC.............
I haven’t seen Democrats this angry since the time we took their slaves away...........
At least the Democrats of the 1860s weren't all, every man Jack and woman Jill of them, bat crap crazy like today.
Duuuhhh...
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