Democrats’ Court-Packing Threats in Virginia Are Practice for the U.S. Supreme Court |
Are Democrats driving themselves off a cliff? Last Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the April 21 Redistricting Referendum as unconstitutional. The Court stated that, contrary to Virginia’s Constitution, the General Assembly did not vote in two separate legislative sessions for the amendment, and the required intervening election for the Virginia General Assembly had not taken place.
Now, Virginia Democrats are considering lowering the retirement age of Supreme Court judges to 54 (it is currently 73), which would effectively force immediate retirement of all seven justices, so that the legislature can install new justices who will rule differently on the referendum.
For years, Democrats looked to the Courts to enact policies that they could not get passed in legislation. Now that the trend is swinging back towards literal interpretations of the Constitution, they are attacking the Courts themselves. They are also eyeing a shakeup of the United States Supreme Court. One has to look no further than calls from Kamala Harris, James Carville, U.S. Rep. Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), and others to know that Democrats will eliminate the Senate filibuster and add four justices to the Supreme Court the next time........