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As a Virginia resident, I can’t give this enough ❤️’s.

PLEASE!

So they're going to bring the law to the lawless in the wastes or what?

The idea of dems actually fighting like something meaningful is at stake is so far fetched at this point. They are going to be talking about decorum and fairness as they are marched into detention centers.

lfg lfg lfg lfg

😬Thank you Dems for considering fighting back, now can we work on the whole thing where tactics get debated in public for weeks while the enemy prepares?😬

Yes, this entire chain of threads and articles is about the Supreme Court of Virginia...

The court? SCOTUS is appointed for life I believe. And if there’s a week 73 yo retirement age explain Pelosi Schumer Strom Thurmond, RBG?

They have a duty to defend our constitution, which includes the fifteenth amendment. When they don't, the job of checks and balances is to find a way to remove them. This fits. I agree set an age limit that removes them.

I'm pretty sure the Virgina Supreme Court could just rule that the law is unconstitutional.

That’s normally a fair critique, but the fact is that the VA Democrats did exactly that by pushing through, and winning, the redistricting vote, despite the nakedly hypocritical tut-tutting of the Washington Post and others of their ilk.

The leadership of the Dem party is comprised of geriatrics who don't have energy for a fight and younger technocrats who temperamentally are conflict and risk averse and prefer small ball wins rather than big swings which runs the risk of a miss. Republicans are crazy and Dems are small.

They literally just passed the redistricting reform over the open objection of the Wapo.

it’s as lazy as the media parroting the idea that “dems need to stand for something not just oppose trump” when there are volumes and volumes of actual policies they advocate for but it’s easier to just repeat the same narrative and low info voters just believe that to be reality

it doesn’t take much to be as informed as me you just don’t take headlines at face value and read what’s actually happening. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/v...

I say, try all of the things!

DO IT!!! Awesome opportunity! Low hanging fruit! Softball right down the middle! Teed up for a tremendous drive! Do not let this lay-up pass you, and the country, by! Karma put that law in place! Shadenfreude!

The disconnect between the rage and willingness to fight among the lower ranks and voters and among those at the top of the party and what remains of the liberal media is huge and only getting bigger. Something has to change.

Believe it when I see it. Trump will probably run to SCOTUS and complain.

Virginia is mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore.

Now you are thinking!

We discussed this in a livestream yesterday. Many options. www.the-downballot.com/p/how-virgin...

Lowering retirement age is a neutral move. Right wingers doing it will be bad and antidemocratic because of intent. Removing the judges that are acting legitimately bad and anti-democratic isn't the same.

Do it.....

Get it over the goal line.

From your lips to God's ears.

lets fuckin go. Consequences for those who defy the will of the voters.

... was appointed by a Republican governor. (last time a Dem appointed a justice there was in 1984) Still, I'm not sure I'd recommend it. Besides institutional concerns, how certain are people it could work _in time_? And what court would hear challenges to the law? 🤔 #redistricting #Virginia 2/

Should be made effective retroactively to jan 1 2026. Sorry old man it's the law. Now get out

Why can’t they just legislate the new map?

Not fun seeing all the "Dems at the Federal level can't do *anything* unless we vote them into power" shitlibs saying Dems in Virginia probably can't / won't / shouldn't so this. GFY

Do it! DOOOO EEEEET!!! 🧐

You gotta fight fire with fire

Sounds fair to me. But this one is truly the end of it.

Just ask yourself, what would the GOP do?

Virginia is going to be a good litmus test, for where the party is headed I believe.

God I hope so. This, as Tim Onion says, is a process fight and Dems love process fights. Hopefully we see some spine.

The average Virginian's political experience lately

Spreadin' like the Junta-virus™.

🎯

And since nowhere in the Constitution is the “Office” of Supreme Court Justice defined, a new Congress and Admin could do the same by defining it as being held by someone younger than 65 and for less than 10 years.

LFG

Virginia residents, call your elected officials and tell them to support this

Lower the age, toss them off, whatever will work to get this done.

I prefer the “write legislation defining an election as starting on election day and make it retroactive” option, but let a million flowers bloom.

The existing map in Virginia contains racially-gerrymandered majority Black VRA districts that SCOTUS just ruled unconstitutional in Callais. The leg should simply declare that the existing map is unconstitutional per SCOTUS and impose new maps that are coincidentally what the voters passed.

I’m all for applying pressure, I just don’t want people to think this is practically a done deal. It sounds like it’s still very much a long shot (and that’s a good motivator to apply pressure)

Excellent. And, honestly, Primary every Dem who wants to surrender our democracy without a fight.

Good

Do it and I’ll mail a chocolate babka!* *maybe

Ignore the opinion altogether or remove the judges. Don’t back down Virginia Dems

Do it

🤞

Please god

Do it!!!

Heck yeah! Whatever works!

Call your electeds and tell them to get on it NOW!

Did the defeatist ‘but but but process’ commenter block me or is he still running his mouth in the comments about how Dems need to lay down for the fascists to take over???? Poison — we should have ZERO TOLERANCE for that kind of rhetoric given the high stakes of this political moment

If elected Dems aren’t willing to do this, they have NO BUSINESS serving in office at this time. If you can’t do what needs to be done, resign and get out of the way for people who can!