President Donald Trump wants House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to be impeached over a comment made after a recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act.
“Hakeem Jeffries, a Low IQ individual, said our Supreme Court is ‘illegitimate.’ After saying such a thing, isn’t he subject to Impeachment? I got impeached for A PERFECT PHONE CALL. Where are you Republicans? Why not get it started? They’ll be doing this to me!” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday.
Jeffries responded on X Sunday simply writing, “Jeffries Derangement Syndrome,” a reference to “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” applied to people who disagree with the president.
While Trump wants Jeffries to be removed from office, members of Congress are usually not subject to impeachment, like the president is.
Last week, Jeffries called a recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act “unacceptable.”
He also called the court’s conservative majority “illegitimate.”
“Today’s decision by this illegitimate Supreme Court majority strikes a blow against the Voting Rights Act and is designed to undermine the ability of communities of color all across this country to elect their candidate of choice,” Jeffries said.
“But we’re not here to step back, we’re here to fight back. Now, when this decision came out earlier today — it’s an unacceptable decision, but not an unexpected decision,” he added.
The Supreme Court ruled Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The decision, 6-3, weakened a central provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has historically enabled advocacy groups to force additional majority-minority districts., per The Hill.
The court’s decision does not get rid of the provision as a whole. Justice Samuel Alito claimed it was an “update” to the framework that has governed Voting Rights Act cases.
