Hakeem Jeffries Just Told You Exactly What Democrats Will Do to the Supreme Court — Believe Him

This is not judicial reform. It is judicial capture. The moment you can add justices whenever you lose too many cases, the Court’s independence — the only thing that makes its rulings legitimate — ceases to exist. What you have instead is a super-legislature with lifetime appointments and no elections, stocked by whichever party happened to control the Senate when the seats were created.

Roosevelt understood this was wrong in 1937 and dropped it when his own party revolted. The Democratic Party of 2026 has no such compunction. They put it in a progressive caucus resolution. Jeffries confirmed it on camera. The DSA co-chair put abolishing the Court entirely in their platform.