Jasmine Crockett Blasts Supreme Court, Demands Reform Over Voting Rights Rulings

Ajouté : 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]It's hard to imagine how you can argue with a straight face that this is what we should be doing in this moment or ever.

[00:00:12]You see because this is the same time as you heard an emotional representative Cohen.

[00:00:18]Now, representative Cohen is a white man.

[00:00:21]But in Memphis, Tennessee, the district that he represents, it is a majority black district and black folk decided that he should be in Congress and be their voice.

[00:00:34]When you look at what they are proposing to do in Georgia, where it's my understanding that they plan to go after Lucy McBath's seat yet again.

[00:00:45]When you look at the type of seat that Hank Johnson currently sits in, it is also a VRA district. When you look at the state that they started in, Texas, they decided to go after majority minority districts to the extent that two black incumbents down in Houston just went head-to-head for a seat in which only one would survive. We know that there are currently debates taking place because Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now wanting to run in one of the few VRA districts that is left so that black people can have representation.

[00:01:20]You see, the reason that y'all want to do this right now isn't because you're afraid that we are after a power grab, it's because you want to lock in this racist agenda for decades to come. Because that's exactly who this court is.

[00:01:37]This court is racist. This court is immoral. And this court lacks any semblance of ethics. The fact that this court just on last night decided that they want to go after yet another Alabama seat, and then they decided to throw out the votes of the voters in Louisiana because they decided that they wanted to go after yet another black seat in Louisiana. The fact that Virginia decided to stand up and fight back AND IT WAS THIS SAME SUPREME COURT THAT DECIDED FORGET THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND THE FACT THAT THEY VOTED, WE'RE GOING TO THROW THAT OUT.

[00:02:14]THIS ISN'T WHAT DEMOCRACY is supposed to be. SO, LET ME BE CLEAR ABOUT A COUPLE of things. Number one, the court absolutely needs to be expanded because it's been expanded in the past and yes, it makes sense if we circuit courts that we should have 13 judges.

[00:02:30]But, let's just pretend that the size of America was the same. Let's pretend that the complexity of the cases was the same as it was when we originally got the nine. Let's pretend all those things. I would still argue that it is time to not only expand the court to introduce some form of ethics and to put term limits on because you have bad actors like Mitch McConnell.

[00:02:51]This court was packed by the Republicans.

[00:02:56]And that is the reason you don't want it unpacked.

[00:02:59]You see, as a trained attorney, I don't understand how the very same court could say that in the state of Texas, 4 days before we were to have the end of filing, it is too close to the end of filing and so therefore, we've got to go ahead and go forward with these intentionally discriminatory maps.

[00:03:18]And these are the words and the characterization of a Trump appointed justice. It's got to be bad when a Trump appointed justice decides that something is racist and is willing to call a thing a thing and put it into writing, but they did that. They didn't just say it.

[00:03:32]They laid it out in an opinion that was more than 100 pages long.

[00:03:37]But, THIS VERY SAME COURT will decide that after votes have been cast to throw those votes out.

[00:03:42]The reason that we need to do something about this court is because this court has decided that it will bend to the will of a want-to-be king.

[00:03:52]We have never in the history of this country needed a court to say that absolute immunity should be given to a president because historically we don't actually keep criminals in the presidency.

[00:04:04]>> [clears throat] >> We know that even after he had been found guilty by a jury of his peers, y'all went out and y'all wanted to say yes, this is our guy.

[00:04:15]The same way that right now in the state of Texas for the Texas Senate race, I'm sure all of y'all will line up behind that criminal as well.

[00:04:23]So, I don't want to hear about law and order. I don't want to hear about this is the right thing to do. Just be honest about what it is because y'all are basically saying that we're stupid.

[00:04:32]You're playing in our faces. We know that this is about locking in this agenda because you will never do right by the people.

[00:04:40]The reason that we have elections is because the people are supposed to decide whether or not your policies are actually working for them but because you have killed our economy, because we are sitting in the midst of an unconstitutional, unlawful war, BECAUSE WE HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT is lining his pockets in the pockets of his friends and his families in violation of the emoluments clause and so many other laws, y'all want to lock in absolute power by any means necessary.

[00:05:09]The last thing that I'll say is I got to respect your gangster because that's exactly how y'all are acting like real gangsters. Y'all are mobbing out and that's one reason that the Democrats are struggling right now because they have always tried to play by the rules. I am here to say that I applaud the people of Virginia. I am here to say that I applaud the people of California. I am here to say that we need to meet fire with fire and fight y'all tooth and nail so that we can do right by the people.

[00:05:37]>> has expired.

[00:05:38]>> I will yield.

[00:05:52]>> Mhm.