President Trump suggested Sunday that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries should be punished after the Brooklyn Democrat rebuked the Supreme Court over its ruling last week striking down Louisiana’s congressional map and weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
“Hakeem Jeffries, a Low IQ individual, said our Supreme Court is ‘illegitimate,’” Trump chided on Truth Social. “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!”
Members of Congress are not subject to impeachment, a process that is reserved for presidents, judges, and high-ranking officials of the judicial and executive branches of government.
Instead, Congress has a separate expulsion process for lawmakers, which requires a two-thirds vote. The House has only ever expelled six members, the most recent of which was lying Long Island GOP Rep. George Santos in December 2023.
“Jeffries Derangement Syndrome,” the House minority leader shot back on X in response to the president.
Jeffries could turn into the president’s greatest headache during his final two years in the White House should Democrats retake the lower chamber in the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
While the top House Democrat has downplayed plans to impeach Trump, Republicans widely expect Dems to try and do so if they retake the House and are anticipating a flurry of subpoenas from the top committees in Congress.
Trump was impeached twice, once in 2019 over accusations he pressured Ukraine into probing the Biden family via a “perfect phone call” with Kyiv President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The president was also impeached for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Ultimately, Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both occasions.
In February, Trump had raged against the Supreme Court for slapping down his International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs, fuming that some of the justices “sicken me.”
“They’re very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution,” Trump told reporters after the decision. “It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think.”
Last week, it was the Democrats who were outraged by the Supreme Court following its ruling that Louisiana had practiced unconstitutional racial gerrymandering by drawing a second majority-black district..
“Today’s decision by this illegitimate Supreme Court majority strikes a blow against the Voting Rights Act,” Jeffries said after that decision. “The extremists have completely and totally failed America. So they’ve concluded, aided and abetted by the Trump Court, that they have to cheat to win.”
