House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared the Supreme Court a "subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party" and refused to rule out packing it with new seats if Democrats reclaim power — the most explicit threat yet to dismantle a constitutional institution that stands in the way of the progressive agenda.

Jeffries made the remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, where he was asked what Democrats would do about the court's 6-3 conservative majority. "There's a variety of different options that are on the table, and I think that we can't foreclose on any single one of them," he said, according to the Washington Times.

Those options include expanding the court to create an instant liberal majority and imposing 18-year term limits on justices. Jeffries promised to put far-left Rep. Jamie Raskin in the driver's seat on court restructuring. Former Vice President Kamala Harris has already endorsed expanding the bench from nine to 13 justices. Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for packing the court because it doesn't follow her views.

The Constitution does not fix the number of justices at nine — Congress can change it by legislation. A group of Democratic senators introduced a bill last month to impose term limits and create appointments every two years. But the filibuster currently requires 60 Senate votes to overcome, which is why Jeffries also endorsed killing that rule. President Trump could veto any such legislation while in office.

This is the same playbook Democrats have run against every constitutional check on centralized power: the Electoral College, the Senate, the filibuster, and now the Supreme Court. As Jonathan Turley noted at ZeroHedge, former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder put it plainly: "We're talking about the acquisition and the use of power if there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028."

What makes the threat particularly brazen is that the court has hardly been a rubber stamp for Trump. The conservative majority has ruled against his administration on tariffs and birthright citizenship. Trump has routinely attacked conservative justices who crossed him. The liberal justices themselves have rejected the narrative that the court is captured. As Turley observed, "none of these figures were claiming that the Court was fundamentally flawed until it ruled against them."

Polls show the public supports the court's recent major rulings, including the ban on racial gerrymandering. Most Americans oppose court packing. None of that matters to Democratic leadership, which views control of the court as essential to forcing through a radical agenda.

Trump has warned voters repeatedly that Democrats intend to abolish the filibuster and transform the Supreme Court. Their "number one policy push is the complete and total obliteration of our great United States Supreme Court," he said last year.

Jeffries brandished a baseball bat on social media to prove his radical credentials to a base that has Democratic Socialists chanting "you're next" at him. On the 250th anniversary of the republic James Madison built, the House Minority Leader is promising to let Jamie Raskin and Elizabeth Warren rebuild it to their specifications. The only question is whether voters hand them the tools to do it.