Never go full banana republic

PJ Media: "The Democrats’ Unhinged Response to the Virginia Ruling Tells You Everything."

That’s right, Democrats literally violated the state constitution to pass the gerrymander, yet they're blaming the Supreme Court of Virginia for calling them out on it. Two options emerged from the call. The first was a straightforward act of defiance — redraw the congressional lines anyway, despite the court having already struck them down.

The second was something out of a banana republic playbook: engineer the replacement of the entire Virginia Supreme Court, potentially through retirements or impeachment, then push through a newly constituted bench that would rubber-stamp the invalidated map. The New York Times described this as "an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court, with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map."

That’s one way to put it.

The story I saw said the Democrats wanted to lower the retirement age to 54 (!) to clear out the entire Virginia Supreme Court, then install seven new justices.  This is sheer lunacy.