Colorado Newsline’s Jonathan Shorman reports that Democrats are renewing calls to overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court after an April 29 voting rights decision they say weakened the federal Voting Rights Act and empowered states to redraw congressional maps in ways that affect majority-minority districts. The story quotes House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calling the court’s conservative majority “illegitimate” and saying, “It’s the Trump Court.”
Pardon me for citing Colorado Newsline, but here we are. They are no more journalists than I am. The difference is I tell you what I am: an opinion hack with a keyboard and a low tolerance for bullshit. They hide behind the sacred incense of nonprofit “journalism,” where anonymous donors allegedly fund truth, justice, and perfectly timed progressive narratives. Right. Pull the other one.
The Bullet Point Brief
- Democrats are angry because the Supreme Court issued a ruling they do not like. So naturally, the answer is not “win elections” or “pass better laws.” It is “restructure one of the three branches of government until it gives us the rulings we ordered.”
- The article says progressives want changes such as expanding the size of the court, imposing term limits, or narrowing the kinds of cases the court can hear. Nothing says “defending democracy” like changing the scoreboard after the referee calls the game.
- Jeffries called the current majority “illegitimate” and said “everything was on the table.” That is Washington-speak for “we lost, so now the institution is broken.”
- Colorado Newsline frames the decision as a major blow to the Voting Rights Act and majority-minority districts. Conveniently missing from that framing is the stubborn little problem of government sorting people by race and calling it justice.
- Even the article admits major court overhaul is unlikely anytime soon, especially with Republican opposition and the filibuster still standing. So for now, this is mostly progressive therapy theater with a fundraising button attached.
My Bottom Line
This is why Democrats drive normal people crazy. A ruling does not go their way, so suddenly the Supreme Court is defunct, illegitimate, captured, broken, dangerous, and in need of “reform.” Translation: the court did not deliver the preferred political outcome, so now the left wants to upend the court until it does.
That is not statesmanship. That is a toddler throwing blocks because the tower leaned right.
The Supreme Court is not broken because it refuses to rubber-stamp progressive doctrine. It is doing what courts are supposed to do: interpret law, even when the result makes activists, donors, and nonprofit narrative shops reach for their smelling salts. The left’s problem is not that the court is illegitimate. Their problem is that the court is not reliably theirs.
And let’s talk about the underlying issue. Drawing districts based on race means government is making decisions based on the color of people’s skin. That is racism wearing a policy badge. We are told, endlessly, that racial discrimination is wrong, unless it helps produce the desired political map. Then suddenly it becomes “voting rights.” Funny how the principle changes clothes depending on who benefits.
Colorado Newsline wants the reader to believe this is journalism about a court in crisis. It reads more like narrative prep for court-packing season. The message is simple: if Democrats lose at the Supreme Court, they will attack the legitimacy of the court. If they lose at the ballot box, they will attack the legitimacy of the voters. If they lose the argument, they will attack the rules. Real adult behavior from the party that never stops lecturing everyone else about democracy.
Source: Colorado Newsline
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