Jeffries indicates potential Supreme Court changes if Democrats win midterms

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicated Thursday that there could be changes to the Supreme Court and the way it operates if Democrats win back Congress in November. 

The chamber's top Democrat told an audience of black journalists in Atlanta that there should be some major changes to election laws and to the operations of the Supreme Court and Senate if Democrats flip both chambers of Congress.

“There’s a variety of different options that are on the table, and I think that we can’t foreclose any single one of them,” he said of potential Supreme Court changes, according to the Washington Times.

Jeffries supported implementing 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, which is currently a lifelong appointment, and said that House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., would lead talks on altering the high court. Raskin has also supported term limits and expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

The top Democrat also slammed the current Supreme Court, claiming the “conservative, right-wing majority on the Supreme Court has become basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party."

The comments come after the Supreme Court allowed states to pass new redistricting maps in the south, which are largely favorable to Republicans, and expanded the president's power over immigration and the government. But the court has also blocked key priorities of the administration, including the use of a 1970s sanctions law to impose tariffs, and it reaffirmed birthright citizenship.

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