The Liberal Media Is Finally Noticing Democrats Are Willing To Shred The Rule Of Law
Democrats have anointed themselves the defenders of democracy and protectors of the rule of law. For years, the liberal media has been more tha
# THE TAKE Both parties have trashed constitutional norms—let's stop pretending this is a unilateral problem. Yes, Democrats weaponized the DOJ against political opponents and normalized prosecutorial overreach. That's real. But Republicans perfected the blueprint: embrace foreign interference, attempt electoral coup, obstruct justice investigations, gut ethics oversight. The "finally noticing" framing is pure partisan theater. Liberal outlets *did* cover Democratic norm-breaking—just less aggressively than conservative media covered Republican violations. Meanwhile, right-wing outlets ignored their side's constitutional arson entirely. The actual story? We've abandoned the bipartisan consensus that certain guardrails matter. Both sides justify increasingly authoritarian tactics as "defensive moves" against the other's supposed existential threat. Rule of law doesn't survive this logic. It requires both teams to accept losing sometimes—a habit neither party remembers. Stop cheering your team's violations while condemning the other's. That's not political analysis. That's just tribalism with footnotes.
What the Documents Show
The call, described as filled with "desperation and fury," included serious discussion of lowering the mandatory retirement age for state justices—effectively court-packing—so Democrats could replace judges and restart their redistricting process. This wasn't hypothetical griping. These were lawmakers considering institutional sabotage to reverse a legitimate judicial decision. What's notable is that even sympathetic media figures couldn't spin this away. On his Monday podcast, Chris Cillizza hosted Chuck Todd, who framed the situation bluntly: "This ruling in Virginia, right?
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This was terrible messaging. This sort of undermined every supposed principle that the Democratic Party had been running on for over a decade." Todd went further, acknowledging reports that Virginia Democrats knowingly violated the state constitution but proceeded anyway. They "didn't dot their I's and cross their T's"—media-speak for "they broke the rules and got caught." The implication, which Todd and Cillizza both articulated, is that Democrats created this disaster through their own arrogance. The mainstream narrative typically frames such incidents as isolated missteps rather than symptomatic of a deeper institutional problem. Todd and Cillizza's exchange suggests something more troubling: a party willing to dismantle the judicial independence that protects all citizens when political outcomes disappoint them. The court-packing discussion wasn't theoretical constitutional debate—it was a direct response to losing a specific case.
What Else We Know
If successful, it would have established precedent that any party holding legislative power could simply rewrite judicial tenure rules to achieve preferred outcomes. For ordinary citizens, this matters because it reveals how institutional guardrails erode incrementally. When either party treats court-packing as a legitimate response to unfavorable rulings, the precedent doesn't disappear when power changes hands. Republican legislatures watching Democrats discuss removing justices over a gerrymander ruling now have a roadmap. The rule of law doesn't protect against majority tyranny if the majority is willing to remake institutions whenever they lose. What happened in Virginia—the discussion, not the actual removal—represents a point where even sympathetic observers acknowledged the line had been crossed.
Primary Sources
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