Virginia Democrats are now openly floating a scheme to purge the entire state Supreme Court after it dared to strike down their rigged gerrymandering power play.
Just days after the Virginia Supreme Court delivered a massive victory for election integrity by ruling 4-3 that Democrats’ sleazy redistricting referendum was unconstitutional from the start, the Democrats are scrambling for revenge.
Their latest authoritarian brainstorm? Lower the mandatory retirement age for judges from 73 to 54, exactly the age of the youngest sitting justice and force every single justice off the bench immediately.
This would hand the Democrat-controlled legislature the power to pack the court with their hand-picked cronies, who would then dutifully rubber-stamp the illegal congressional map Democrats tried to ram through.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) wrote on X:
“Just so we’re clear: Democrats want to rewrite the Virginia Constitution because the State Supreme Court rejected their unconstitutional maps. For a party that loves to chant “No Kings,” this is VERY undemocratic.”
Just so we’re clear: Democrats want to rewrite the Virginia Constitution because the State Supreme Court rejected their unconstitutional maps.
For a party that loves to chant “No Kings,” this is VERY undemocratic.https://t.co/wJWJIyH3aS
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) May 10, 2026
The New York Times reported:
Democrats are struggling to respond to a major redistricting setback in Virginia, with some party leaders discussing an audacious and possibly far-fetched idea for trying to restore a congressional map voided by the court but showing little indication they have a clear plan.
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.
[…]
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.
Ms. Spanberger would have to sign off on any legislation that lowered the judicial retirement age. She has not been briefed on the proposal, the people involved in the discussion or briefed on it said. Her spokeswoman, Libby Wiet, declined to comment.
[…]
Ensuring the plan proceeds would involve the General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, lowering the mandatory retirement age for Virginia’s Supreme Court from 75 to 54, the age of the youngest current justice, or less. Virginia judges are appointed by the General Assembly, where Democrats hold majorities in both chambers and could then fill vacancies on the court with sympathetic Democratic lawyers.
The post DESPERATE POWER GRAB: Virginia Democrats Plot to Pack Supreme Court by Lowering Retirement Age to 54 After Losing Big on Gerrymander Map – Force Out All Justices to Install Cronies Who Will Rubber-Stamp Illegal Redistricting Scheme appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.