Virginia Democrats have now botched their illegal redistricting power grab so many times that it's becoming genuinely difficult to keep track of the self-owns. After the Virginia Supreme Court struck down their gerrymandered congressional map in a 4-3 ruling on May 8, the party's legal team rushed to appeal — and promptly misspelled their own state's name on the filing, addressed their U.S. Supreme Court appeal to the wrong court, and are now floating a plan to purge the state's high court by lowering the retirement age to 54. According to Blaze News, the comedy of errors just keeps compounding.
You almost have to admire the commitment to incompetence. Most people would stop embarrassing themselves after the first typo. These folks looked at the humiliation and said, "Hold my briefcase."
Let's rewind. Virginia voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment last month — 52% to 48% — that would have handed redistricting power back to the Democrat-controlled legislature. The problem? The Virginia Supreme Court found that Democrats violated their own state constitution's procedural requirements when they rammed the amendment onto the ballot. The first legislative vote happened on October 31 of last year, while early voting was already underway, with 40% of ballots already cast. The court ruled the whole thing null and void.
The blocked maps would have gerrymandered Virginia's congressional districts to favor Democrats in 10 out of 11 seats — a naked grab for four Republican-held House seats in a $64 million scheme. So naturally, Attorney General Jay Jones, House Speaker Don Scott, and State Senator Louise Lucas scrambled to file an emergency motion begging the court to pause its ruling.
That's when things got really funny.
The joint motion's very first page misspelled "Virginia" as "Virgnia" in the section identifying the plaintiff. Just below that, "senator" appeared as "sentator." Three lawyers co-authored this masterpiece. Three. Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares had the perfect response: "Good News: Dems managed to spell Virginia correctly. Bad News: They sent their emergency application to SCOTUS to the wrong court. Baby steps."
He wasn't exaggerating. When AG Jay Jones filed the appeal to the United States Supreme Court, the document was addressed to the "Supreme Court of Virginia" — the very court that just ruled against them. Journalist Eric Daugherty flagged the blunder immediately: "Virginia Democrats and AG Jay Jones appealed TO THE WRONG COURT while trying to get the Supreme Court to help reinstate their 10D-1R gerrymandered map." Daugherty added that Jones "wrote to 'Supreme Court of Virginia' LMAO! You can't make this up. Their last filing ALSO had tons of spelling errors at the state level. These people are rushed, panicked, and incompetent!"
Page 53 of the second filing contained yet another misspelling of Virginia. Because once wasn't enough.
But wait — it gets worse. Rather than accept the court's ruling like adults, Virginia Democrats are now reportedly considering a plan to purge the Virginia Supreme Court entirely. The scheme, first floated in a progressive newsletter called "The Downballot," would lower the mandatory retirement age for justices from 75 to 54 — which just happens to be the age of the court's youngest justice. Since Virginia judges are appointed by the General Assembly and Democrats hold majorities in both chambers, they could theoretically force out every current justice and stack the bench with rubber stamps.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise called it out on social media: "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."
He's right. This is what desperation looks like when it puts on a suit and trips over its own shoelaces.
Think about what we're watching here. Democrats spent $64 million on a gerrymandering scheme. The state's highest court caught them violating their own constitution. Their legal team can't spell the name of the state they're trying to steal. They filed their federal appeal to the wrong court. And now their backup plan is to pack the judiciary like it's a suitcase they're sitting on.
These aren't serious people. They're not even competent crooks. They're the political equivalent of a bank robber who hands the teller a stick-up note written on the back of his own electric bill. Every step of this fiasco has been a self-inflicted wound, and the only thing keeping it going is the sheer arrogance of a party that believes rules are for Republicans.
Keep watching Virginia. If Democrats can mess this up any worse, they will.
