Democrats have spent much of Donald Trump’s second term warning that his attacks on the courts threaten democratic norms. Yet when courts deliver rulings they dislike, many Democrats prove willing to undermine those same institutions themselves.

After Virginia’s Supreme Court blocked the state’s gerrymandered congressional map, Democrats responded not with restraint, but with attacks on the very legitimacy of their own judiciary, even exploring ways to remove some or all of its justices.

That response goes far beyond ordinary political frustration. It is another example of Democrats engaging in the very sort of behavior they routinely condemn in Trump.

Virginia Democrats are trying to override constitutional safeguards for partisan gain

From the outset, Virginia Democrats’ redistricting push was a brazen attempt to sidestep constitutional safeguards against partisan gerrymandering.

Virginia’s constitution requires congressional districts to be drawn by an independent commission, precisely to stop either party from manipulating maps for political advantage. Rather than accept that constraint, Democrats sought to sidestep it through a constitutional amendment process requiring only a simple majority in a........

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