JONATHAN TURLEY: House Minority Leader Jeffries' brother sounds chilling call to arms

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries doubled down on his inflammatory rhetoric toward Republicans when asked about his vow to unleash 'maximum warfare' on the GOP. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an Ohio State University history professor and the brother of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, joined the call of many on the left for citizens to rise up and fight the system "by any means necessary." However, Jeffries added a menacing element in calling for citizens to emulate John Brown, who murdered White farmers who supported slavery. He is not the first academic to use Brown as a model for political action today. In a social media post flagged by Libs of TikTok, Jeffries declared that "John Brown understood that the only way to free Americans from the scourge of White supremacy was to get rid of White supremacists by any means necessary. He was right then. He is right now