VA Dems file SCOTUS redistricting appeal with horribly embarrassing mistake on 1st page – might as well have misspelled ‘SCOTUS’
The folks who brought you the inadvertent hilarity of “Virgnia” and “sentator” would like to make amends by letting you know they can make mistakes in important legal filings that don’t involve misspellings.
In an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States seeking to overturn his state’s Supreme Court ruling a new voter map unconstitutional, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’ office — which was much criticized for several key misspellings in a similar document last week — ran this one through spell check, but forgot to change the template.
il, which passed barely after a not-inconsiderable amount of resources were poured into it, and seemed to be “betting that if the amendment won at the ballot box, the court would flinch at countermanding the will of the people.”
They did not flinch, noting that the late first passage of the proposed amendment by the General Assembly on Oct. 31, 2025, meant that roughly 40 percent of the ballots for the “intervening election” that’s supposed to occur between the passage of the bill and the referendum being held had already been cast. Judge D. Arthur Kelsey wrote for the majority that this last-minute amendment “appears to be wholly unprecedented,” and it was struck down by a 4-3 margin.
The offices of Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones — formerly best known as the child-murder fantasist that Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger managed to drag over the line last year, despite his clear issues — and House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott, both Democrats, immediately filed an appeal to the state Supreme Court to delay issuing the mandate, saying that they would be appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
There were several issues with this, first and most substantively, that this is very clearly a state matter and not a federal one. Aside from that, despite the fact that this could be seen coming down the pike from a mile away, there were also signs that this document was a bit, uh, rushed.
Well, OK, given a second shot, they got it right, correct? Sort of. Spelling: yes. Court name: no.
Might as well have misspelled “SCOTUS.” Great job, 11/10.
This is what happens when you get a DEI hire who dreams about killing his enemies as your attorney general. And if you think it can’t get any worse, just consider this: Ketanji Brown Jackson will be voting (quite predictably, at that) on this case they sent as an “emergency application to the Supreme Court of Virginia.”
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