Hakeem Jeffries Just Gamed Out Democrats’ Revenge Plot Against Virginia Judges and Republicans Are Furious

Hakeem Jeffries once taunted Republicans with "eff around and find out" over Virginia's gerrymander.

Now his own courts have made him find out.

What he's reportedly plotting next has constitutional lawyers calling it the most dangerous power grab in Virginia history.

Jeffries Calls an Emergency War Council After Losing in Court

The Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democrats' redrawn congressional map on Friday – ruling 4-3 that the Democratic-controlled legislature had skipped required steps for amending the state constitution.

The court didn't mince words about what Jeffries and Gov. Abigail Spanberger had tried to pull.

The majority opinion called their effort "wholly unprecedented in Virginia's history" and said the Rule of Law "requires that it be done the right way."

That ruling carried a direct political price tag.

Democrat-aligned groups spent more than $64 million pushing the new map through – much of it funneled through House Majority Forward, a Jeffries-linked PAC that alone contributed nearly $39 million.

The map they were fighting for would have flipped Virginia's congressional delegation from a 6-5 Republican advantage to a 10-1 Democratic supermajority.

The Virginia Supreme Court killed it before a single seat changed hands.

So Jeffries got on the phone.

On Saturday, he convened a private call with Virginia's Democratic House delegation to figure out what to do next.

Three participants and two others briefed on the call told the New York Times what was discussed.

The most dramatic idea on the table: fire every sitting justice on the Virginia Supreme Court.

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The Plan to Purge Virginia's Entire Supreme Court

Virginia's mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices is currently 73.

Democrats would pass legislation – buried inside the state's annual budget bill, due June 30 – slashing that age to 54.

That number is not an accident.

Fifty-four is the exact age of the youngest justice who voted to strike down the gerrymander.

Set the retirement age to 54 and every justice on the bench gets forced off immediately.

With all seven seats suddenly vacant, the Democrat-controlled Virginia General Assembly appoints seven replacements.

The new court then takes up a fresh legal challenge to the redistricting commission itself – the independent body that Democrats bypassed to ram through their map in the first place.

If the packed court dismantles the commission, Virginia Democrats draw whatever map they want before November.

State Rep. Suhas Subramanyam openly endorsed the plan on the call.

"Everyone has got to have a strong stomach right now," Subramanyam told the Times. "This is a complete disaster waiting to happen if people are timid."

Gov. Spanberger – who would have to sign any retirement age legislation into law – has not publicly commented.

The "No Kings" Party Just Declared Itself King

Jonathan Turley, Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor, called the Jeffries plan the "Nike School of Constitutional Law: Just do it."

"No court or institution is sacred in the cause of social and political change," Turley wrote.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise went straight at the hypocrisy.

"Democrats want to rewrite the Virginia Constitution because the State Supreme Court rejected their unconstitutional maps," Scalise posted on X. "For a party that loves to chant 'No Kings,' this is VERY undemocratic."

Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares was equally direct.

"Nothing says 'rule of law' like court packing the Va Supreme Court for saying NO to your illegal and unconstitutional gerrymandering scheme," Miyares wrote.

Democrats spent years calling Republicans threats to democracy.

The party that staged a televised war over Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation is now openly discussing firing an entire state Supreme Court because it enforced the constitution.

They've done this before – and it destroyed them.

In 1937, FDR tried to pack the U.S. Supreme Court after losing New Deal cases, and his own Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee buried it – calling the plan "a needless, futile and utterly dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle." His own vice president gave it a thumbs-down on the Senate floor.

Jeffries isn't running a Depression-era gambit to save relief programs.

He's running a 2026 power grab to rig House seats before November – and he's doing it in a purple state where half the voters now know exactly what he and Spanberger tried to do to them.

Turley called the gerrymander defeat "a face-planting of legendary proportions" for Spanberger – a self-described moderate who promised Virginia voters she opposed gerrymandering, then spent tens of millions trying to eliminate Republican representation the moment she took office.

Virginia conservatives didn't just win a court ruling.

They caught Hakeem Jeffries showing exactly what Democrats do when the law gets in their way.

Sources:

• Eric Daugherty, "HOLY SMOKES. Hakeem Jeffries' House Dems have discussed FIRING the VA Supreme Court," X/Twitter, May 10, 2026.
• Leif Le Mahieu, "Democrats Float Dramatic Shakeup That Could Force Out Virginia's Entire Supreme Court," Daily Wire, May 11, 2026.
• Amy DeLaura, "Democrats Consider Plan to Wipe Conservatives Off Virginia Supreme Court," Washington Examiner, May 11, 2026.
• Elizabeth Stauffer, "Democrats Considering Radical Plan to Replace Virginia Supreme Court Justices," Legal Insurrection, May 11, 2026.
• Jonathan Turley, "Angry Left Plots to Purge Virginia's High Court," Fox News, May 10, 2026.
• Jonathan Turley, "The Gerrymander Debacle in Virginia Leaves the Democratic Party with a Dangerous Agenda," JonathanTurley.org, May 9, 2026.