The Democrats' Response to Losing at the Virginia Supreme Court Just Escalated
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/13/marc-elias-abolish-va-government-n2676012
By Amy Curtis
Townhall
May 13, 2026
Democrats are not coping well with the Virginia Supreme Court rightly ruling against their redistricting referendum, a move that sought to disenfranchise the state's Republican voters. In response, they've proposed lowering the retirement age for the state Supreme Court and packing it with Leftists who will rule in their favor, looking at "judicial reform" across the country (read: packing state and federal courts with Leftists), and even trying to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a move that will get laughed out of SCOTUS shortly.
But now attorney Marc Elias has a new plan: nuke the entirety of the Virginia state government.
Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) ~ VA Const.
"whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal."
Incredible. Democrats control the governorship, both chambers of the state legislature, and the state supreme court. And that's not good enough because Democrats lost one ruling that blatantly violated Virginia's laws and state constitution.
Let that sink in for just a second. Marc Elias is an "elections" attorney who was an advisor for John Kerry's 2004 campaign, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign, the Democrat National Committee ... AND is an advisor for the Virginia Democrats' redistricting campaign. He is suggesting a dissolution of the current Virginia government - a Democrat governor, a Democrat lieutenant governor, a Democrat attorney general, a Democrat majority house, a Democrat majority senate, and a Democrat majority state supreme court - by force of arms simply because the Virginia State Supreme Court barely ruled against them (4 to 3) on a no-brainer case where Democrats were painfully and obviously on unconstitutional grounds. Unbelievable.
Casey Mattox (@CaseyMattox_) ~
Democrats: Win the Governorship, Lieut. Gov, AG, both chambers of state legislature.
[One decision from the state Supreme Court goes 4-3 against them]
Democrats: "THE TREE OF LIBERTY IS WATERED WITH THE BLOOD OF TYRANTS!!!"
Democrats believe in one thing: power. Anything — any laws, constitutions, courts, or politicians — who get in the way must be destroyed.
Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) ~ Bad news for Abigail Spanberger.
And all the Democrats in the House of Delegates and the state Senate.
Tar Heel Joe (@FormerModerate) ~ 65% of voters voted to add the redistricting process to Virginia's constitution in 2020. Democrats ignored that process and had their new map thrown out by the Supreme Court. Now after that ruling, you're calling for the overthrow of the Commonwealth. You guys truly have lost it.
Truly. For all their bloviating about "the will of the voters," they sure seem to ignore the will of the voters from 2020, who wanted a bipartisan commission and changed the state constitution to reflect those wishes.
On top of that, no matter how you feel about Abigail Spanberger's win, Virginia voters did elect her and a Democrat-controlled legislature. This would undermine the will of those voters, too.
Greg Price (@greg_price11) ~ Oh, no big deal. Marc Elias just wants to abolish the entire Virginia government because the State Supreme Court wouldn't let them violate the State Constitution to draw a 10D-1R map. All to save democracy of course.
To "save democracy."
Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) ~ Marc Elias has reached the "publicly calling for the abolition of the Virginia state government" stage of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Much norms. Very democracy. Such rule of law.
The "norms" crowd is very quiet about all of this.
Christian Heiens (@ChristianHeiens) ~ We've so thoroughly shattered the minds of Libtards that their top-tier lawyers are now tweeting about starting a literal revolution in Virginia because they lost a court case on procedural grounds.
The irony, of course, is that Marc's revolution would immediately devolve into a civil war, and lawyers like himself would automatically become completely pointless.
Are you going to pick up your rifle and fight on the front lines?
Nah ... Elias is too much of a coward to pick up a rifle, himself, after openly calling for revolution. Besides, if the Democrats tried to instigate a revolution, the rest of America - who own most of the firearms and actually know how to use them - would put them down for good.
It's highly unlikely anything will come of this, but it shows the lengths to which Democrats are willing to go to obtain and hold on to power. They do not care about the rule of law, the constitution, the co-equal branches of government, or any of that if those things obstruct their pursuit of power.
See article by Jonathan Turley:
Democratic Lawyer Marc Elias Raises Power to Eliminate the Virginia Government in Response to the Gerrymandering Decision
http://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/13/democratic-lawyer-marc-elias-raises-power-to-eliminate-the-entire-virginia-government-in-response-to-redistricting-decision/
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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