Democrats are always looking for ways to advance their radical agenda, even in the face of defeat. So, it was no surprise when the “party of democracy” immediately used its humiliating redistricting loss in Virginia as part of its ongoing war against the U.S. Supreme Court.
The vicious onslaught began on Friday after SCOTUS rejected Virginia Democrats’ application to block a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court that found their extreme gerrymandering referendum to be unconstitutional. As a result, the commonwealth will use its current six Democrat-five Republican congressional map for the 2026 midterms rather than the 10 Democrat-one Republican map proposed by state Democrats.
Virginia’s request for SCOTUS to intervene in the matter was always considered a long shot. As court observers have pointed out, the case dealt with violations of the Virginia Constitution and is a matter of state law — not federal.
But that didn’t matter to Democrats, who quickly used the high court’s unanimous rejection of the commonwealth’s request to continue their vilification campaign against the body’s conservative justices.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger accused SCOTUS and the Virginia Supreme Court of “nullify[ing] an election and the votes of more than three million Virginians” by upholding the rule of law.
Virginia attorney general and assassination enthusiast Jay Jones similarly claimed the SCOVA ruling “overturned the results of a lawful election and erased the will of millions of Virginia voters.” He also said, “Today’s one-sentence denial from the Supreme Court of the United States is yet another profoundly troubling example of the continued national attack on voting rights and the rule of law by Donald Trump, Republican state legislatures, and conservative courts.”
Both Democrats conveniently omitted the fact that state Democrats asked the Virginia Supreme Court to issue its ruling on the referendum after the election.
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote on X that “the American people will decide who controls Congress in November” and “not far-right extremists on the Supreme Court.” Effectively lying by omission, the New York Democrat declined to mention that the Supreme Court’s three Democrat appointees did not dissent from the high court’s rejection of Virginia’s application.
In response to The New York Times saying that “the Supreme Court does not ordinarily review rulings of state supreme courts interpreting state constitutions,” left-wing columnist Seth Abramson seemingly attempted to compare the Virginia redistricting case to the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision involving the 2000 presidential election to attack the high court’s conservative justices.
“Bush v. Gore would like a word, NYT[.] SCOTUS conservatives will step in *instantaneously* if a state supreme court goes even a hair too left for them,” Abramson wrote, ignoring the federal questions at issue in Bush v. Gore.
Leftists’ latest arrows against the conservative justices come as part of a broader Democrat-led mission to undermine and destroy the Supreme Court. This campaign has most recently included Democrat calls to pack the high court with left-wing activists once their party retakes control of the federal government.
Among those to telegraph support for such a radical proposal are former vice president and 2028 presidential frontrunner Kamala Harris, Jeffries, Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, and others.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
