Hakeem Jeffries Clowned by Virginia Supreme Court

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]This was huge. What happened on Friday?

[00:00:03]The media has the midterms all wrong.

[00:00:06]Most of their so-called guests, these strategists, have never strategized with anybody, never mind been on a congressional race or anything else. So, I'm just telling you, when you hear these pundits and strategists on CNN or elsewhere, no one ever actually tells you what they strategize with or for with whom. They they they sort of registered to vote and somehow CNN puts them on. I'm going to tell you because they are so dishonest when it comes to the impact of redistricting. And then they also will tell you that this gerrymandering is sort of some Republican plan. They don't talk about the disenfranchisement of political groups like Republicans in Massachusetts or Maryland who get completely screwed. Somehow this is only a one-way street for Republicans. It's unbelievable. On my local NBC station here, uh in the Washington area, the the reporter this morning said Republicans were upset cuz Democrats broke the rules. They didn't break the rules, folks. They broke the law. They violated the law. And it's not some like little infraction like you were playing a soccer game. This is for real. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down this Democrat attempt to violate the law in Virginia. They had taken what was now a what was then a 6-5 map in favor of Democrats, which got to be honest, is probably the fairest thing I've ever seen, uh when it comes to Democrats. I mean, they they have a majority of the congressional delegation. That's probably where the state is right now.

[00:01:33]Um and they wanted to go 10-1.

[00:01:35]They wanted to take five congressional districts and start them in Fairfax County, northern Virginia, and have them go down and weave like a little snake throughout the Commonwealth south.

[00:01:46]So, the people in southern Virginia were represented by a leftist liberal in Fairfax County.

[00:01:52]That's not representation. And like I said, in four distinct ways it violated Virginia law.

[00:01:59]It was funny because when they first did this little plan, everybody on the left got excited. This is Hakeem Jeffries when it kicked off.

[00:02:05]Take a listen. The law is with us in Virginia.

[00:02:09]The facts are with us in Virginia. And the people are with us in Virginia. There's no basis in law or fact for the Virginia Supreme Court under the constitution that exists particularly in the aftermath of a people-approved referendum to do anything other than to allow it to move forward.

[00:02:33]I guess he was wrong because they didn't agree with him. And like I said, there were four distinct ways that they didn't they violated the Constitution and the law. Four distinct ways. They couldn't even count to 90.

[00:02:43]That's the what the law says it has to happen between the legislature approving it for a second time and the voters being quote presented it. That didn't occur.

[00:02:52]The Attorney General Jay Jones couldn't defend that cuz it wasn't true. Uh he he literally was dumbfounded when asked by CNN about this and he couldn't answer the question.

[00:03:01]Secondly, it wasn't compact. That's what the Constitution of Virginia requires.

[00:03:06]Third, the language that they used was supposed to be in plain English that voters understood the impact. They in quite opposite do the quite the exact opposite. They wrote the ballot measure and called it fair and temporary. That's an absolute lie and misleading voters.

[00:03:21]That was their goal is to confuse people to think somehow this was some temporary thing. Remember, voters in Virginia just a few years ago voted overwhelmingly 63% to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians.

[00:03:34]They didn't want to talk about that. And And lastly, by the way, so you've got the number of days, you've got the language in the Constitution. But the other thing is is that the law says that it has to happen in two sessions of the General Assembly.

[00:03:47]And then an intervening election has to occur. Well, last session they were in a special session. They called a one-day deal as before voters had actually or while voters millions of voters in Virginia had already started voting.

[00:04:00]So, that was a clear another violation.

[00:04:03]Well, Hakeem Jeffries who was so clear about that take on the ruling had a much different tune this weekend. Take a listen. A new generation of Americans have to show up, stand up, speak up, fight, get into good trouble to usher in an era of progress.

[00:04:18]We went from the progress of emancipation to the backlash of Jim Crow. The progress of the civil rights movement to the backlash of mass incarceration, the progress of electing Barack Obama to the backlash that has resulted in the elevation of Donald Trump mega extremism and this behavior that we're seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States to throw the American South back into the Jim Crow era. So, it's going to take an all-hands-on-deck effort.

[00:04:47]Now, I again, I I don't even know what he's saying there.

[00:04:50]We're going back to Jim Crow. All this is out I'm sorry because you can't have black districts.

[00:04:57]Like, that's exactly the opposite of what you supposedly fight for.

[00:05:01]This is a problem with the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. I've said this over and over again. Think about the black Republicans. Burgess Owens, John James, Wesley Hunt, Byron Donalds.

[00:05:11]They're not in majority black districts.

[00:05:13]They can win.

[00:05:14]But, Democrats want to guarantee black Democrats a certain number of seats.

[00:05:19]Now, the thing that's so fascinating and again, you will not hear this on anywhere else because they don't want the media and the Democrats don't want you to know this.

[00:05:26]But, Justice Arthur Kelsey who wrote the decision in that Virginia case was elected to the Virginia Supreme Court by the Virginia General Assembly in January of '15 by Democrats.

[00:05:41]You do realize this, right? So, this guy gets nominated and passed through the General Assembly of Democrats.

[00:05:50]It wasn't Republicans. This is a Democratic judge. If they are pissed at anyone, be pissed at your own guy.

[00:05:56]This was unbelievable.

[00:05:58]He was put on the appellate bench by Democratic Governor Mark Warner and confirmed to the Supreme Court by every legislative Democrat in the assembly at that time. The House of Delegates then all of them, all the Democrats, voted for him.

[00:06:14]It's unbelievable. And you know what their reaction now, by the way, is? They wanted to do two things. They're going to appeal the Supreme Court. They have no basis for that, number one. Number two, and this is a kicker.

[00:06:24]This is literally the kicker, by the way. They are proposing, according to New York Times, the Democrats in Virginia are saying that they want to impose a mandatory retirement age of Virginia Supreme Court justices at age 54. 54, that's an odd age, isn't it? How would you possibly come up with that?

[00:06:43]Oh, guess what?

[00:06:44]The youngest member of the current Virginia Supreme Court is 54. So, they literally want to randomly pick the age at which the youngest member of the Virginia Supreme Court sits, and throw them all out so they can appoint a new group who will rubber-stamp what they want done.

[00:07:02]I I just the hypocrisy of these Democrats knows no bounds.

[00:07:06]But, I'm going to tell you why this matters to all of us. Okay? And this is the key thing. You will not hear this anywhere else, but I'm actually going to use facts and another thing, math, that you're not going to have anywhere else.

[00:07:19]These guys are all of the assumption prior to Friday that they'd win the House of Representatives.

[00:07:26]Republicans have ostensibly a one-seat majority. They were very clear all of this was going to benefit them. That's why they did it. California, Virginia, etc. It was unbelievable.

[00:07:38]This is what I want you to read. This This what Hakeem Jeffries said, "We will win the house in 2026 and then aggressively pursue decisive electoral campaign finance and judicial reform.

[00:07:49]Democrats will protect the right of African-American communities to elect their candidate of choice through litigation and intense mobilization.

[00:07:57]I'm sorry.

[00:07:59]If you're black and you want to run for Congress, run.

[00:08:02]The Democratic Party wants to help you.

[00:08:03]Help them. Nothing's stopping you.

[00:08:06]What are you going to do? I don't understand that. Judicial reform Oh, again. That means packing the court.

[00:08:11]They don't want to say that. Campaign finance What it What you don't like how The problem is when they don't get their way, this is the difference. They literally want to just change the rules.

[00:08:22]And you see the reaction out of Republicans right now because according to the RNC spokesman, Ali Trulio, Democrats are panicking because of decades of unconstitutional race-based gerrymandering and finally being exposed. As I've told you guys, this whole system benefited Democrats. That's it. They didn't care about anybody else.

[00:08:43]And right now you've got the Congressional Black Caucus, the CBC, freaking out. They're facing an existential crisis. Think about how much power the Congressional Black Caucus has within the House of Representatives.

[00:08:54]They are a mountain.

[00:08:57]Everything has to get checked off by them. And the giant in that mountain on that mountain is Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. His district is about to go bye-bye.

[00:09:06]These guys were on the ascent. Remember, Clyburn's the guy who resurrected Joe Biden.

[00:09:12]And now he's in trouble because they're about to get rid of that Charleston-based South Carolina seat potentially. This is a big deal. You've got a potentially 19 of their entire caucus. That's about 1/3 that could get wiped out.

[00:09:27]This is going to be a big deal for the Democrats.

[00:09:30]Suddenly, the old guard is going to get ushered out and a bunch of new progressive left-wing nutjobs are going to get ushered in.

[00:09:38]This is a big deal for the caucus there on the Dem side.

[00:09:43]And I just want to another fun fact, when these guys talk about the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucus, and how they represent blacks in the South and it's important and blah blah blah, just remember, they've never allowed Republicans to join.

[00:09:58]They call themselves the Congressional Black Caucus, but they don't want they don't allow Republicans to join it, and this goes back decades.

[00:10:07]It's so funny how they talk about representation and importance of color and things like that, and yet when Republicans of color get elected, well, that doesn't count.

[00:10:18]We don't want them in our caucus. We don't care that they got elected in majority white districts cuz that's the thing.

[00:10:24]So, as I said, the Virginia Democrats are going to appeal this to the Supreme Court.

[00:10:31]Remember, our attorney general here in Virginia is a guy named Jay Jones, the same guy who threatened his political opponent, wanted to kill him, and his kids.

[00:10:42]Well, apparently, aside from that small personality defect, he also isn't a great speller, and as one bad speller to another, I'm going to give you a piece of advice, Attorney General Jay Jones here in Virginia. Before you submit a brief to the Supreme Court, use spell check, because you didn't spell Virginia right, you didn't spell senator right, and you can't even spell attorney right.

[00:11:09]You make a mockery of the job.

[00:11:11]Use spell check. I've done that, you know, to help me with my problem spelling and in grammar.

[00:11:17]But this is an embarrassment. This is who these guys want.

[00:11:21]But let me just bottom line this for everybody.

[00:11:25]Why this matters.

[00:11:27]The momentum has suddenly shifted.

[00:11:31]In the last 10 days Republicans went from being on their heels and being defensive to being on the offense and feeling the wind at their back.

[00:11:43]The Virginia the Voting Rights Act being partially struck down at the Supreme Court has meant us talking about picking up seats in Louisiana and Alabama, potentially in South Carolina and Tennessee.

[00:11:57]I think we're in that three to four out of that.

[00:11:59]Florida separate from the Voting Rights Act decision of the Supreme Court, we'll pick up four. And now Virginia takes those four that were in the Dem column and puts them back in the Republican column.

[00:12:10]The Cook Political Report over the weekend moved 11 races from the Democrats towards the Republicans. 11.

[00:12:19]Now, here's my math and again, I got to tell you this cuz this is crucial.

[00:12:24]In you got to understand this because this is where the media won't talk tell you what's really going on.

[00:12:32]Sit down, focus for the next two minutes before I bring in Nick Weinstein to talk about the polling though.

[00:12:38]Cuz this is important.

[00:12:40]When you count up the seats in the House of Representatives and say which one are the Republicans favored to win, which ones are the Democrats and where are the toss-ups?

[00:12:49]By my math and again, there's a bunch of these guys that are out there.

[00:12:53]There's the Crystal Ball, there's the Cook Political Report, there's the Inside Elections.

[00:12:59]I've got us right now and I'll give you the the things the Crystal Ball has us Republicans at 211, Democrats at 208.

[00:13:08]Toss-up at 16. Inside Elections has Republicans at 217, Democrats at 207 and 11 toss-ups. The Cook Political Report has Republicans at 209, Democrats at 208, toss-up at 218.

[00:13:23]Why does this matter?

[00:13:25]Well, look at the math. You need 218 to get to the majority and under the lowest scenario, which is the Cook Political Report, Republicans have 209.

[00:13:34]You take Inside Elections, they're 217.

[00:13:37]Republicans under that scenario need just one seat of the toss-ups to get the majority.

[00:13:43]The media keeps saying that Democrats are favored.

[00:13:47]Yes, I'll give you that the political headwinds are difficult. The environment favors them, there's no question about it, but you still have to run the races, folks. You have actually have to go through the motions. And here's the reality. Worst-case scenario, Republicans need um nine seats.

[00:14:06]Nine.

[00:14:08]That's it.

[00:14:09]Best-case scenario, they need one if you look at the Inside Elections.

[00:14:14]Under the Sabato, they need seven. The Crystal Ball. The point is for all these folks, the Democrats would have to run the table to take back the house.

[00:14:25]That's just not reality.

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[00:15:06]I got to tell you one other thing that I want to share with you before we leave.

[00:15:10]It gave me a chuckle over the weekend.

[00:15:12]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in a conversation with David Axelrod, the former Obama advisor, um and she was asked about whether or not some of these suggestions that she considered running for the Senate or the presidency are top of mind to her because the Washington Post had criticized her uh for some of her positions and saying that for someone who wants to advance up the ranks, these are not the positions that one takes, especially when it comes to critiquing uh billionaires. And this is how she responded. Take a listen.

[00:15:44]You know, it's funny because in this op-ed that Jeff Bezos paid for in the Washington Post, um >> [clears throat] >> um there was this line that you had mentioned earlier about well, as a potential 2028 contender, XYZ. And in the context of that, it's it was very clear this was a veiled threat, right?

[00:16:07]So, it's the elite saying if you want this job you just stepped out of line.

[00:16:17]And we want you to know where the real power is.

[00:16:21]And it's in the it's in the modern-day barons who own the post and own the algorithms and we're going to we'll make an example out of you.

[00:16:32]And what's funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional.

[00:16:40]They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat.

[00:16:45]And my ambition is way bigger than that.

[00:16:51]Um my ambition is to change this country.

[00:16:55]All right, there you go. My ambition is way bigger than that. I'm going to change the country.

[00:17:01]I mean, I I got to tell you, I laugh when I hear this.

[00:17:04]She is so cocky.

[00:17:06]My ambition is bigger than this. I don't just want to be president. I want to be like czar and ruler.

[00:17:11]Um it's it's egotistical.

[00:17:14]It's kind of stupid, too, cuz it's also like how are you going to make change if you're not in one of those positions?

[00:17:18]Remember she'd be still in her 30s if she ran for president.

[00:17:23]But this just tells you the hutzpah of the woman like this. I know, we should tap in all that experience she has as a bartender. I think it's smart.

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