Something big just happened in Virginia, and Democrats are absolutely losing their minds over it. The state Supreme Court dropped a ruling that wiped out one of the most brazen power grabs in recent memory — and the left’s response tells you everything about how they actually feel about the rule of law. They’re not upset about democracy. They’re upset about losing. But there’s a detail buried in this story that changes everything.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to void the Democratic-backed redistricting referendum that voters narrowly approved last month. The court’s majority, in an opinion that Justice D. Arthur Kelsey authored, could not have been clearer. “We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia.” That’s basically a diplomatic way of saying that Democrats broke the law in an attempt to fast-track their power grab, and the court wasn’t going to pretend that didn’t happen.
The map in question was a Democratic gerrymander designed to flip four Republican-held congressional seats and favor Democrats in 10 of the state’s 11 districts. To get there, Virginia Democrats bypassed the bipartisan redistricting commission voters had created in 2020, and shoved the constitutional amendment through without following the required intervening-election process.
Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares even flagged the whole scheme as unconstitutional back in Oct. 2025.
If Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Democrats had paid attention my October 2025 AG’s Opinion that made clear this scheme was unconstitutional and illegal, they could have saved more than $70 million, countless headaches, and months of obnoxious television ads defending the… https://t.co/787vvZRHZD
— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) May 8, 2026
Instead, Democrats ran the whole play anyway, burned the money, and lost in court. Now they want to cry about it.
“Over three million Virginia citizens cast their votes in a free and fair election, yet the State Supreme Court has chosen to invalidate their voice, disenfranchise them, and violate their due process rights,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger piled on, calling it an assault on voters who “voted to push back against a President who said he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “Virginia was an election of three million Americans,” she said. “This court did not overturn a map. It overturned an election. An election.”
Three voices, one script. The coordination is almost impressive. The message is this: Voters chose the gerrymander, and the court overruled the will of the voters.
Cute story, but that’s not what happened.
What they’re all carefully leaving out is that the court didn’t strike down the map because it didn’t like the outcome. It struck it down because Democrats violated the state constitution before the vote even took place. The violation “incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy,” the court wrote. You can’t run an illegal process, win a close vote, and then scream that the courts are stealing democracy when someone calls you on it.
And the audacity of Democrats crying about courts overturning the will of voters is something else entirely.
These are the same people who cheered when the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s voter ID law in 2022 — a law that voters had approved by constitutional amendment in 2018. The court gutted it anyway, ruling — without any actual evidence to prove it — that the voter ID law was enacted with discriminatory intent. No constitutional process violations. No skipped steps. Just a court deciding it didn’t like what voters wanted, and making it disappear. And no Democrat whined about the will of the voters.
So please, lefties, cry me a river.
At least the Virginia Supreme Court had actual lawbreaking to point to. Virginia Democrats violated Article XII, Section 1, full stop. The North Carolina court manufactured a racial animus finding out of thin air to kill a law the left found inconvenient.
Just because voters gave their approval for the gerrymander doesn’t absolve the Democrats for violating the state Constitution.
