'Significant Judicial Overreach': Hakeem Jeffries Takes Shot At Supreme Court Over Recent Decisions

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly press briefing on Friday where he spoke about the Supreme Court.

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00:00Going back to the Supreme Court for a second, another decision that could come around the

00:05corner any moment has to do with the Chevron test, and depending on what the Supreme Court

00:11decides there, that could change how specific Congress has to be with respect to what it

00:16delegates to regulatory bodies and what isn't.

00:19Have you given any thought to how that might change the job of Congress here, and how big

00:23of a change would that be in your view?

00:26To the extent that the Chevron doctrine is undermined or eliminated, it will provide

00:31another example of the MAGA extremist movement, including on the United States Supreme Court,

00:39trying to jam their right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people, often

00:44in an undemocratic fashion, as opposed to allowing the elected representatives of the

00:52people of this country, in partnership with the elected administration, to enact public

01:00policy.

01:03We are witnessing significant judicial overreach, led by right-wing extremists on the Supreme

01:14Court.

01:15And the American people rejected, one of the reasons why Democrats, in election after election

01:27after election, since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, are winning, winning, and over-performing,

01:42as was the case in Ohio, when the Democratic Party didn't even contest the race in the

01:54most recent special election.

01:55And yet we saw a 26-point over-performance by a Democratic candidate who spent $25,000

02:06against a well-known Republican state senator who spent over $700,000.

02:13And it was the most recent of many examples of what is likely to come in November.

'Significant Judicial Overreach': Hakeem Jeffries Takes Shot At Supreme Court Over Recent Decisions

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