Developing: Virginia Dems Plotting Overthrow of Entire State Supreme Court to Save Redistricting Scheme
Modern Democrats turn destructive when they fail to get their way.
Say something they dislike? They will try to cancel or censor you. Elect someone they hate? Leftists have already tried to kill President Donald Trump multiple times. Issue a ruling that thwarts their partisan coup? They might try to dissolve the entire court.
According to The New York Times, Virginia Democrats, bitter over the defeat of their redistricting plan at the state Supreme Court, have discussed a plan to essentially do away with the court as its currently constructed.
The plan involves lowering the mandatory retirement age for justices from 75 to 54. Coincidentally, the youngest current justice just happens to be 54 years old.
In other words, the Democrat-controlled Virginia General Assembly would replace the entire court at once. Then, Democrats could fill the vacancies with Democratic partisans and thereby save the congressional redistricting plan the current Virginia Supreme Court just shot down.
On April 21, more than 3 million Virginia voters narrowly approved a new Democrat-drawn congressional map. At the time, Democrats framed the map as a matter of “fairness,” a response to Texas’ new GOP-heavy map, part of a nationwide redistricting war ahead of the 2026 midterms. They claimed it was only a “temporary” measure, with the ballot question’s wording specifying that the process would go back to normal after the 2030 census.
Even by the time Virginia voters weighed in, however, multiple Virginia courts had warned that the map likely violated the state’s constitution. A Tazewell County judge twice ruled against it and then, after the vote, refused to allow its certification.