Jeffries Floats Packing Courts After Virginia Redistricting Collapse

ignited backlash from Republicans and conservative legal analysts. “Everything should be on the table as far as I’m concerned.”

The comments came just days after the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down Virginia Democrats’ aggressive congressional redistricting plan in a narrow 4-3 ruling.

The ruling wiped out a strategy that Democratic operatives had hoped would produce as many as 10 Democratic congressional seats out of Virginia’s 11 districts.

That ruling triggered an internal Democratic blame war and, according to a leaked private discussion first reported by The New York Times, sparked conversations among top Democrats about extraordinary measures to potentially sideline or replace members of the Virginia Supreme Court.