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Virginia’s AG Could Really Use a Spell-Check

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Virginia’s AG Could Really Use a Spell-Check

Social media is having a grand time with the misspellings in Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’ filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight over the Commonwealth’s redistricting referendum. Do you really need to know how to spell Virginia to enforce the will of the people?

I say that because, much in the same way the referendum was a vote for so-called fairness, the attorney general’s filing asks the Supreme Court to uphold the “will of the people,” not the Constitution.

Most people I talk to tell me that this won’t go anywhere, but having been around the block a few times, I know that it’s just the beginning of normalizing this rampant form of mob rule that comes from pure democracy without checks and balances. So, we must press into it.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, after the ruling on the laws broken to bring a referendum to a vote was announced by the Supreme Court of Virginia, that the justices were bringing back the “Jim Crow South.” Shortly after that, Virginia Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Petersburg, used the same phrase on NewsNation.

So, in the “Jim Crow South”........

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