“We will make sure that Justice Kelsey does not serve anymore come this January.” - @DelDanHelmer
That is a threat of retaliation against a Supreme Court justice for his ruling on the redistricting amendment.
Justice D. Arthur Kelsey was appointed to the Court of Appeals of Virginia in 2002 by Democratic Governor Mark Warner. He was elected to a full term by the General Assembly in 2003. Re-elected in 2011.
And in 2015, he was elevated to the Supreme Court of Virginia by a unanimous vote of the General Assembly.
The only thing that has changed since 2015 is that Justice Kelsey authored an opinion the Democrats did not like.
Now think about what that means for every other judge in Virginia. The next time a hard case comes across their bench, the judge will have to include whether they’ll be reappointed. Judges have children in college too. They have mortgages, law school debt, and often give up higher earning opportunities to take the bench.
Now, it’s been made clear, they cannot afford to make the “wrong” decision, and now they know exactly what “wrong” means when Democrats are in charge.
This is how you get leverage over a judge. This is how you bend a court and compromise our third branch of government. With a paycheck. With a pension. With their retirement.
This is not how we do things here in Virginia. We follow the rule of law.
When Chuck Schumer threatened Justice Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court steps in 2020, Chief Justice Roberts rebuked him publicly. Bar associations condemned him. Schumer walked it back the next day.
Schumer could not actually remove Kavanaugh, but Delegates will cast a vote on Kelsey’s re-election, if sought, in January. The threat is not rhetorical. It is operational. And has likely already had its impact on Justice Kelsey’s decision to move forward.
Democrats would be screaming if a Republican delegate or said this about a justice that ruled in their favor with a majority opinion. I’m interested to see the reaction if any to this threat of retaliation against Justice Kelsey.
Justice Kelsey decided the case in front of him on the law, in the majority with three other justices. Just as has done for twenty-five years.
The Commonwealth does not threaten its judges. We do not purge our courts. We do not measure justices by whether they vote the way the majority caucus needs for power.
This is brandishing power, and it needs to be called out.
- Del. Wren Williams
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🚨Behold another bizarre Va. Democrat-gerrymandered district: the eel! The 125-mile-long, thin eel splits counties & violates the Va. Constitution's compactness mandate. Democrats again reached up into crowded "blue" Northern Va. to grab enough Democrats to outnumber the Republican voters downstate. 🔥Vote NO to Democrat gerrymandering!🔥
‼️Vote NO‼️
Early voting begins today on the Redistricting Constitutional amendment.
Democrats want to silence rural VA’s voice. It’s a complete power grab. In my district, Augusta and Rockingham counties would be broken up into 3 districts. Get out to vote NO!
Early voting starts for the Virginia Redistricting Referendum today! Vote “NO” to this referendum. There is nothing fair about these maps that give Democrats a 10-1 advantage.
Your kid’s college tuition is more expensive because Dems give preferential treatment to illegal aliens and Republicans won’t end the foreign student visas.
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In the interest of balance, let me summarize the argument defending the integrity of the 2020 election in Fulton County: It does not matter that Republican monitors were not allowed to observe the verification of absentee ballot signatures. It does not matter that poll workers failed to document that the tabulation machines had been reset to zero before scanning the ballots. It does not matter that poll workers failed to certify the accuracy of the tabulation sheets. It does not matter that Fulton County announced it was stopping the vote count election night only to start it back up when the Republican election monitors left. It does not matter that Republicans were limited to one observer for every ten counting tables in the hand count. It does not matter that the two machine counts and one hand count do not match each other. It does not matter that a count of the uploaded ballot images does not match any of the three official counts. It does not matter that ballot images are missing from the upload. It does not matter that batches of ballots were scanned multiple times. It does not matter that a resident of Maryland cast an absentee ballot using Gabe Sterling's home address. This was the most secure election in American history. Brad Raffensperger said so and that is good enough for me. Please stop nitpicking.
I’ve been called names no one should ever hear, and I’ve watched people hold racist signs meant to shame me. And because I have an R next to my name, few care.
But I am no victim. Words won’t break me, and they won’t stop this campaign.
We are going to win. 🇺🇸
This has to be the most authentic ad I’ve seen in politics in a long time.
Vote for Winsome Sears on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, to keep Virginia 🟥 RED!
👏👏👏 💯 the right call from @VDOE_News and Superintendent Emily Anne Gullickson!
To the critics — If a public school educator celebrates political violence or the assassination of a father of two, they are unfit to teach — and the State Board of Education is absolutely within its authority to revoke their license for not upholding the Standards of Professional Conduct and Ethics.
Our kids deserve educators who model civility, respect, and responsibility. Period.
And if you look up your school division’s Code of Conduct and Ethics, you will likely find an added section for School Board Members, which goes a step further.
More details on the @oneccps Code of Conduct and Ethics continued…
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