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In Virginia, desperate Democrats have a plan to overthrow the state Supreme Court
American Thinker ^ | 10 May, 2026 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/11/2026 4:50:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Currently, wiser heads are dubious about the plan, but who knows what the Democrats will do if they feel they’re out of options?

ast week, the Virginia Supreme Court, which has been considered a left-leaning court, surprised everyone, including the Democrats, by issuing a correct ruling: The rushed ballot initiative to gerrymander Virginia’s Republicans into oblivion didn’t pass muster, invalidating the election.

Democrats responded with their usual “burn it all down” rhetoric. CNN’s Abby Phillip, in full “emo kid” mode, announced that America is now “in the depths of hell,” and that all black voters have been disenfranchised. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who ought to have been statesmanlike, fanned the flames, attacking the Virginia Supreme Court and announcing that the United States Supreme Court is a Jim Crow institution.

Jeffries also promised that Democrats “are exploring all options to overturn this shocking decision.” With that in mind, Quinn Yeargain, a law professor at Michigan State University College of Law, has a plan. It’s not a good plan—indeed, it’s an attack on America’s core premise of stable institutions and impartial courts—but it’s a plan.

In an essay at The Downballot, a progressive (i.e., hard leftist) outlet, Yeargain suggests that the Virginia legislature change the state Supreme Court’s retirement age, so that, effective immediately, everyone over 53 must retire—an upper age limit that would put all of the current judges out of a job:

Article VI, Section 9, of the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature unlimited authority to set the retirement age for judges. It specifies, “The General Assembly may also provide for the mandatory retirement of justices and judges after they reach a prescribed age, beyond which they shall not serve, regardless of the term to which elected or appointed.”

Currently, he writes, the retirement age is 73,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bolsheviks; cheating; democrats; domsticenemies; lawlessness; leftism; meltdown; redistricting; rigging; tampering; virginia; vra

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1 posted on 05/11/2026 4:50:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

DemocRATs are so sneaky!


2 posted on 05/11/2026 4:51:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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We will fix the problem by discriminating based on age. DEI at work again. “We practice Inclusion by excluding people”


3 posted on 05/11/2026 4:59:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: MtnClimber

It’s so typical of the left when they lose: they don’t get their way so they want to break things: Add more positions to the US Supreme court so they can stack it with lefties, remove Donald Trump from the ballot, gerrymander the opposition out of all possible contention. The left does not believe in the constitution since they work so often to subvert it.


4 posted on 05/11/2026 5:02:44 AM PDT by aklurker
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To: MtnClimber

“Our democracy” = “their democracy” = they are in charge, you shut up and obey or else.

Or else what you ask? Just ask Charlie Kirk, just ask the VA Supreme Court.


5 posted on 05/11/2026 5:03:00 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: MtnClimber

The real problem is the stupidity of many Americans who are increasingly seeing violence as the norm.


6 posted on 05/11/2026 5:07:00 AM PDT by albie
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To: AppyPappy

“ We will fix the problem by discriminating based on age. DEI at work again. “We practice Inclusion by excluding people”.”

Exactly how they think. If it serves their purpose how can it be wrong?


7 posted on 05/11/2026 5:08:11 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: MtnClimber

This is the kind of rhetoric that makes Blacks look stupid. Democrats are going to find out that they aren’t ,and the Black folks are going to break the Democrat chains and free themselves.


8 posted on 05/11/2026 5:10:14 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: MtnClimber

Because right is what they do to others, wrong is what’s done to them.


9 posted on 05/11/2026 5:11:13 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Just another example of “democracy” at work!


10 posted on 05/11/2026 5:15:15 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber

But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” Isaiah 57 20-21


11 posted on 05/11/2026 5:18:31 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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What is to prevent them from lowering the age to 18? Yes, require EVERY judge on the Supreme Court to be no older than 19 and be a female. Cause they know young women rule with their emotions, not their brains.


12 posted on 05/11/2026 5:19:04 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Rlsau1

Communists, socialists, Islamists, leftists(but I repeat myself) all have as a primary tenant “if it advances the cause it is good, if it doesn’t it is bad and shoild be ignored, destroyed…..”


13 posted on 05/11/2026 5:21:59 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: aklurker

Summer is coming.

The residents of the City States are going to burn them down


14 posted on 05/11/2026 5:30:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: MtnClimber

The democrat party is the ball and chain on free people.


15 posted on 05/11/2026 5:31:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Has there ever been a political force in the United States as dangerous to our Constitution as the Democratic Party? Seriously. They didn’t like the election of Lincoln so they started the Civil War. They didn’t like emancipation of blacks so they formed the KKK and unleashed a terror campaign across the South for about 100 years. They implemented the Jim Crow and segregation laws that they brazenly accuse Republicans of wanting to bring back. They put liberal judges on the courts who ignore the law to advance liberal policies. And then when a court stands up to their naked power grabs, they move forward to get rid of the court as they are trying to do with the Virginia court. The Democratic Party is a cancer on this country.


16 posted on 05/11/2026 5:47:17 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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“ It’s so typical of the left when they lose

Yes it is. Replacing the entire SCOVA is something you’d see in’s third world country.


17 posted on 05/11/2026 5:51:56 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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What if the VA Court finds this move to be unConstitutional?


18 posted on 05/11/2026 5:58:56 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Couldn’t have stated this any better. Thank you.


19 posted on 05/11/2026 6:07:15 AM PDT by TheRake ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled". ~Mark Twain)
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To: MtnClimber

Pretty sure that too would take a constitutional amendment.


20 posted on 05/11/2026 6:15:23 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (RL)
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