5/8/26 - Virginia Supreme Court Decision Has Democrats in PANIC Mode

May 9, 2026

Mike Rogers, former congressman running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, and Sebastian Gorka, former White House counterterrorism official. They discuss Virginia’s redistricting ruling and its fallout for race-based maps. They debate census shifts benefiting red states and wealthy flight from high-tax cities. They outline a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy targeting cartels, global jihadists, and violent radical left actors.

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Virginia Court Upholds State Constitution Over Referendum

The Virginia Supreme Court enforced strict state constitutional procedures to void a gerrymandering referendum and reinstate the 2021 congressional maps.
Mark Levin notes the court said the referendum violated Article 12, Section 1 by bypassing an intervening election, so the 2026 maps remain the 2021 maps.

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Race Cannot Be Primary Basis For Districts

The Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision blocks race-primary districting, forcing states to redraw maps without race as the primary factor.
Levin cites Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi shifting away from race-based majority-minority districts and warns of defensive Republican gerrymanders.

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Tax Hostility Drives Billionaires And Businesses Away

Mark Levin contrasts voluntary market redistribution with coercive political redistribution and criticizes Marxist tax-the-rich city policies pushing billionaires out.
He names New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and cites Ken Griffin and Apollo executives leaving as examples driving business flight to low-tax states.

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On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, the Virginia Supreme Court ruling on congressional redistricting upholds the state constitution. The Democrat threats to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is just drama with no federal issue (since state supreme courts have final say on state constitutions). This ruling has broader implications including the end of race-based districting in states like Alabama and Mississippi, defensive Republican gerrymandering, past census undercounts favoring Democrats, and upcoming population shifts benefiting red states. Also, in New York and other blue cities, Marxist mayors like Zohran Mamdani seek to punish the wealthy with higher taxes regardless of their contributions in jobs, innovation, and value creation, prompting billionaires and businesses to flee to lower-tax environments that welcome them rather than attack what they've built. Later, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka calls in to explain the new unclassified U.S. counterterrorism strategy President Trump signed. It refocuses America on counterterrorism with zero compromise, targeting three main threats: cartels (now designated foreign terrorist organizations), global jihadists such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, and radical violent left-wing extremists including Antifa, certain pro-transgender individuals, and anarchists responsible for killings like that of Charlie Kirk. Afterward, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a sharp dissent in the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais case over a procedural decision to expedite finalization of its ruling against race-based congressional maps. Her stance reflects a progressive effort to delegitimize the Court, especially after its bright-line rejection of race-based districting, while ignoring the state's prior judicial entanglements over maps. Finally, Mike Rogers calls in with an update on his Senate race in Michigan. He warns that his opponent, Abdul El Sayed, embraces radical activist Hassan Piker and has justified a Hezbollah-linked terrorist attack on Michigan schoolchildren – these views should be disqualifying.

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