After the Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 last Friday that the Democrat redistricting referendum violated the state constitution, Attorney General Jay Jones (D) filed an emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking the justices to revive the voided map. The appeal is going about as well as the referendum did.

If they can’t spell Virginia, why are we letting them run it?

Here is what Jones and the Democrat legal team have produced in the last 96 hours:

• Filing #1 was riddled with spelling errors. The motion, co-authored by three lawyers and signed by AG Jones, misspelled “Virginia” as “Virgnia” in the phrase “Virgnia House of Delegates,” and misspelled “senator” as “sentator.” This is the Attorney General’s office of the Commonwealth, asking the highest court in the land to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling — and the document misspells the name of the state. Blaze Media
• Filing #2 was sent to the wrong court. On Monday, the Democrats filed their formal emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court. They mistakenly addressed it as “the Supreme Court of Virginia,” instead of correctly addressing it to the United States Supreme Court. This is the appeal of the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling. They sent it back to the court they are trying to overturn. Newsbusters
• They still misspelled “Virginia.” This time deeper in the document. “Virginia” is misspelled once again, but only on Page a53. Newsbusters
• The filing may not even ask for the right relief. Ed Whelan, a legal scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, examined the petition and concluded that “the Democratic petitioners do not appear to be asking for the right relief. Even if the Supreme Court were to grant Virginia’s emergency application for a stay (it won’t), that would still leave in place the lower-court injunction” blocking the map. Translation: even if Jones wins, he still loses. Blaze Media

Former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) captured the moment in a single post on X: “Good News: Dems managed to spell Virginia correctly. Bad News: They sent their emergency application to SCOTUS to the wrong court. Baby steps.” Townhall

Now read this part carefully. Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D-34, southeastern Fairfax) has already publicly admitted the appeal will not change the 2026 election even if Democrats win. Surovell said “the practical realities of our election calendar” will prevent candidates from running in new maps even if conservative justices on the US Supreme Court were open to helping Virginia Democrats. Common Dreams

So they are filing a motion they admit cannot succeed on the timeline they need, asking for relief that legal experts say is the wrong relief, in a filing that misspells “Virginia,” sent to the wrong court. This is the team Fairfax voters trusted to redraw four congressional districts.

The numbers behind the failure are staggering. Per Miyares, the redistricting effort wasted “$70 million in political money and $10 million in taxpayer money on an illegal, unconstitutional gerrymandering amendment.” Of that taxpayer money, $5 million was the cost of administering the April 21 special election that the state Supreme Court has now voided. Blaze Media

The petitioners on the appeal are not a junior staff list. They are the top of the Virginia Democrat ladder:

• Attorney General Jay Jones (D) — Virginia’s chief law enforcement officer, sworn in January 17, 2026
• House Speaker Don Scott (D-88) — top Democrat in the House of Delegates
• Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D-34, Fairfax) — top Democrat in the Senate, who has already admitted the appeal cannot succeed in time
• Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas (D-18) — the #2 Senate Democrat, currently under federal corruption investigation following an FBI raid of her office and cannabis shop last week

This is the Democrat trifecta in action.

Governor Abigail Spanberger (D), asked about the appeal? No comment. The same governor who has now gone silent on the Descano DOJ probe, the Lucas FBI raid, and now her own Attorney General’s serial filing failures.

Two questions for Fairfax voters: If the team running Virginia cannot spell the name of the state on a Supreme Court filing, what else are they getting wrong? And how much more of your tax money goes to chasing a constitutional amendment the courts have already buried?

The August 4 primary moves forward under the existing congressional map. The filing deadline is May 26. Senator Mark Warner’s seat, plus the House seats held by Don Beyer (VA-8), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), and James Walkinshaw (VA-11), are all on the ballot under the original districts. Volunteer now. The Democrats just told you, in writing, how prepared they are.