Virginia Dems’ Last Hope Of Saving Rigged Maps ‘Is Dead’
'You’ll probably hear from the Supreme Court [Friday], but what you’ll hear is a great big nothingness,' said former AG Ken Cuccinelli.'You’ll probably hear from the Supreme Court [Friday], but what you’ll hear is a great big nothingness,' said former AG Ken Cuccinelli.Virginia Democrats trying to force through illegal power-grab make ANOTHER humiliating mistake
The Virginia Supreme Court sent Democrats into conniptions with a ruling on Friday striking down as unconstitutional a ballot measure that would have all but guaranteed their party another four seats in the U.S. Congress.
Democrats' desperation to force through their illegal power-grab in the wake of the 4-3 decision now has them considering truly extreme options, including lowering the retirement age for justices on the Old Dominion's high court, purging its current lineup, and stacking it with liberals.
'Baby steps.'
While their comrades plot alternative ways of disenfranchising millions of Republican voters in Virginia, Democratic state officials are trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their gerrymandering initiative.
The Democrats behind the likely doomed petition are, however, having difficulties with spelling and differentiating between disparate courts.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, House Speaker Don Scott, and President Pro Tempore of the Virginia Senate Louise Lucas filed a joint motion late on Friday asking the Old Dominion's Supreme Court to delay its order invalidating the gerrymander referendum and the corresponding constitutional amendment proposed on the ballot while they appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) highlighted a glaring spelling error in the court filing, which was submitted by state Solicitor General Tillman Breckenridge. Near the top, Virginia House of Delegates was spelled "Virgnia House of Delegates."
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Miyares wrote, "If you are going to appeal to SCOTUS maybe don't misspell Virginia?"
Other keen observers — including Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon — pointed out that in the document, "senator" was spelled "sentator."
Miyares continued: "This is a motion that has zero chance to succeed and is [a] Hail Mary to save face after wasting $70 million in political money and $10 million in taxpayer money on an illegal, unconstitutional gerrymandering amendment. This motion will be declared dead on arrival."
Democratic Virginia officials — evidently willing to test Miyares' theory that their motion "will be declared dead on arrival" — filed an emergency application on Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting a stay of the Virginia Supreme Court's decision that they claimed was "deeply mistaken on two critical issues of federal law with profound practical importance to the Nation."
The emergency application not only contained the Democratic officials' previous embarrassing spelling mistakes but a brand-new error on the first page, referring to an "emergency application to the Supreme Court of Virginia," rather than the Supreme Court of the United States.
"Good News: Dems managed to spell Virginia correctly," Miyares wrote on Tuesday. "Bad News: They sent their emergency application to SCOTUS to the wrong court. Baby steps."
Miyares' quip aside, the Virginia Democrats managed to get their mistitled petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Even still, Edward Whelan, a legal scholar and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, discovered other possible problems. "Very weird that cover page states 'On Emergency Application to the Supreme Court of Virginia,'" noted Whelan. "That's the styling for a petition for a writ of certiorari, but it makes no sense to say that the emergency application is 'to' the Supreme Court of Virginia."
But the greater blunder, suggested Whelan, is that the Democratic petitioners do not appear to be asking for the right relief.
"Even if the Supreme Court were to grant Virginia's emergency application for a stay (it won't), that would still leave in place the lower-court injunction that the state supreme court affirmed," wrote Whelan.
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After Assassination Fantasies, Virginia Elects Democrat Jay Jones As Attorney General
In a stunning endorsement of violence against their political opponents, Virginia voters elected Democrat Jay Jones to be their next attorney general on Tuesday. According to The New York Times, Jones is projected to defeat incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in the battle to become the commonwealth’s chief law enforcement officer. As of publication, […]Democrat holds a healthy lead for Virginia governor, but one scandal could throw downballot races
Early data indicates Democrats are currently enjoying a lead in Virginia's gubernatorial race, but one notorious scandal might cost them the attorney general race.
Polling has consistently shown Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger with a comfortable advantage over her Republican challenger, Winsome Earle-Sears, who has served as Virginia's lieutenant governor since 2022. Spanberger is averaging 7.4 points ahead of Earle-Sears, according to RealClearPolling, with some polls even putting the Democrat at a double-digit lead.
'Do you really want to elect that person as a law enforcement officer in your state?'
However, this advantage has not translated to the Virginia attorney general race, where Democratic candidate Jay Jones has fallen behind Republican candidate Jason Miyares.
Miyares' newfound momentum came at the beginning of October after Jones' leaked texts revealed he was privately fantasizing about putting "two bullets" in the head of a political opponent and about the man's kids dying in the arms of their mother.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), who himself survived a politically motivated shooting, warned that Jones' rhetoric revealed skewed judgment.
"Do you really want to elect that person as a law enforcement officer in your state?" Scalise asked in response to the texts. "Should other elected officials be accepting and condoning and endorsing that, or should they denounce it, which I did? Everybody should denounce it, and yet some won't for political reasons."
"I think it's a gut check for people's integrity," Scalise told Blaze News. "If you're willing to accept a call to violence because you're more worried about a political party advancing than you are worried about civility in this country, that's a real big concern for alarm."
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It's clear that extreme rhetoric is unpopular with Virginians. In the lieutenant governor's race, Republican candidate John Reid has hammered Democratic candidate Ghazala Hashmi's radical track record, including the time she boasted about teaching children books that were banned for containing explicit material.
"One of my concerns is violence. We seem to focus on sexually explicit material," Hashmi said in a video obtained by Blaze News. "I don't really care about that."
"We teach the books that other people try to ban," Hashmi said.
Even still, polling puts Reid and Hashmi within striking distance of each other. The latest polling shows Hashmi at a two-point advantage over Reid, although notably 7% of surveyed voters remain undecided.
"Ghazala Hashmi's words speak for themselves," Reid told Blaze News. "Any public official who says they 'don't really care' if children are exposed to sexually explicit material in schools is completely out of touch with Virginia parents."
"Parents deserve to know what's in their kids' classrooms — and when I'm lieutenant governor, they'll have a voice and a seat at the table."
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Virginia Attorney General Launches New Task Force To Uphold State Election Laws
Virginia AG Jason Miyares announced that his office is launching a new Election Integrity Unit to ensure transparency in state elections.Today's top stories
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