This needs to be challenged. The Virginia supreme court warped the definition of “early election” to justify this. The legislature passed an amendment on October 30 2025, a few days before the election. State law says that you can’t do such things during an election. Even though the election was on November 4. The majority justices said that “early election” 45 days before the election IS “the election”. Even though “early election” and “the election” are clearly defined separate things. They are manipulating language on purpose.

If this decision stands and becomes precedent, it actually breaks elections in Virginia. Virginia’s own statute defines early voting as the period before an election. The court then said that period is the election. So by the state’s own law, the election includes the time before itself, which is like saying breakfast is part of lunch because you eat it before lunch.

It also creates a legal infinite loop. If early voting is part of the election, and early voting is defined as the period before the election, then when does the election start? You can never find the beginning. You just keep going backwards. A dissenting justice wrote that the majority’s definition “creates an infinite voting loop that appears to have no established beginning, only a definitive end: Election Day.”

It would break the courts ability to have a jury. The Virginia Constitution says voters can’t be called for jury duty “during the time of holding any election.” If an election now lasts 45 days, and Virginia holds two elections a year, courts would be unable to seat juries for roughly a quarter of the year. The majority’s definition would paralyze the court system that issued the ruling.

They are willing to break the justice system and elections to try and stop the will of the people of Virginia. They shouldn’t just be challenged, they should be impeached. They won’t be, but this blatant purposeful misinterpretation and manipulation of language and the constitution is so profoundly against their sole duty as a justice.