Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Constitution: Dems Furious

All they had to do after winning control in Richmond last year was not act insane.

But Democrats were incapable.

Led by their inarticulate, dumb, gloating party leader - Louise Lucas - who giddily blathered incessantly about “10-fucking-1,” Democrats were suddenly part of a Greek chorus, pushing a referendum to return Virginia to gerrymandering.

They result was an illegal and unconstitutional attempt to redistrict the commonwealth while ignoring constitutional requirements for amending the Virginia Constitution.

Democrats were barely able to drag their grotesque amendment across the finish line on April 21 despite as much as $80 million spent on leftist propaganda and with Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama plastering their faces on the campaign.

Turns out, it was all for naught. On Friday morning the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the referendum had violated multiple parts of the state constitution and the vote was tossed out. The current congressional districts stay.

Period.

There is no appeal of the court decision. In state matters, there’s a reason this court is styled “Supreme.”

Idiots in the media and even some Harvard Law School grads - looking at you, Tim Kaine - deliberately misled the public while reporting the news.

No, the court did not “block the peoples’ choice” neither did it “toss out the new congressional map.” The court tossed out the referendum that would have created the new congressional districts because Democrats in the General Assembly violated the state constitution to hastily bring it to a vote.

Low IQ people were screaming and gnashing their teeth on Friday, wondering why Florida and Tennessee could simply redraw their congressional maps while the courts blocked Virginia from doing so.

How hard is it to understand that this is Virginia? Not Florida, Texas or Tennessee.

We have a beautiful state constitution that makes it arduous to amend the constitution. A process that should take years not months. That’s intentional, by the way.

There are rules regarding timing, notice and intervening General Assembly sessions that govern when a proposed amendment can be placed before the public. There are requirements that the language of a ballot question be clear and neutral. Those constitutional provisions were created to stop precisely what Democrats just tried to do: They wanted to ram through an amendment without giving the people adequate time to consider it. Additionally, early voters had no opportunity to consider where their representatives stood on the amendment before casting their ballots.

The Democrats, lead by Louise Lucas -whose businesses were raided last week by the FBI - flashed their middle fingers to the Constitution. They were not about to let that fine document stand in the way of disenfranchising millions of Republican voters.

Democrats so thirsted for those additional congressional seats that they were willing to break laws to get them.

Shame on the party for putting Virginia through this. The illegal referendum cost Virginia roughly $14 million to stage. Pity the court didn’t order the party reimburse the taxpayers.

As insane as that power grab was, it doesn’t compare to the deranged reaction from the sore losers after Friday’s ruling.

Democrats lost in court and immediately set about plotting to take a blowtorch to the rule of law.

The New York Times reports that Hakeem Jeffries is so desperate to be Speaker of the House that he’s been noodling with other Democrats about whether Virginia could immediately lower the mandatory retirement age of Supreme Court justices to 53, forcing all seven members to resign - they range in age from 70 to 54 - then fill their spots with justices who will do the bidding of the party. The new court could toss out Friday’s ruling, a move that would destroy the independence of the state Supreme Court.

Sure, Dems, give the first black female chief justice the boot and see how that plays with the base. I dare you.

During a private discussion on Saturday that included Democratic House members from Virginia and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, the lawmakers vented anger at their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map and discussed a bank-shot proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway, according to three people who participated in the call and two others who were briefed on it.

The conversation reflected the desperation and fury that have gripped the party after the state Supreme Court struck down a favorable map that had been ratified by voters. The most dramatic idea they discussed — which would involve an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court, with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map — drew mixed reactions on the call, said the people, and it was not clear that it would even be viable,

One key to the plan would be having Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court justices, an idea that began circulating among state lawmakers and members of Congress after a column proposing a version of the idea was published on Friday night in The Downballot, a progressive newsletter.

Sounds unhinged - and no doubt illegal - but Dems are already lining up behind it.

Desperation and fury are no way to govern. Sane Democrats ought to urge their fellow travelers to calm down, accept the decision of the court and look to the future. They’ve blown enough of their political capital on this chicanery.

Fat chance of that happening. There are simply too few sane Dems left in Virginia to force the party to act rationally.