After Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares squared off against Jay Jones on the debate stage Thursday, Miyares appeared on Fox News to blast his Democrat opponent.
“If Jay Jones was applying to be a line prosecutor in my attorney general’s office — in fact, any attorney general’s office in all 50 states — he wouldn’t pass the background check for the job,” Miyares said on <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jay-joness-gop-opponent-burns-dem-ag-candidate-over-violent-fantasies-he-wouldnt-pass-the-background-check/">America Reports</a>.
During Thursday&#8217;s debate, Miyares repeatedly brought up text messages that Jones sent in 2022 in which he wished death on former Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Todd Gilbert, said Gilbert and his wife were “breeding little fascists,” and claimed he would like to “piss” on Republican graves, among other horrifying statements.
“I’m ashamed, I’m embarrassed, and I’m sorry,” Jones <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/virginia-jones-apology-attorney-general-00612739">said</a> on the debate stage — to which Miyares <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFv8bFlgTdw">responded</a> that if he were truly sorry, he would not be running for attorney general.
Miyares also brought up the fact that in 2022, Jones was convicted of reckless driving for going 116 mph in a 70 mph zone — but essentially walked for it.
“There were four people in court that day, all going around the same speed,” Miyares said on Fox News. “Three of those four people got active or suspended jail time. The only person that didn’t was Jay Jones because he’s a politician, and then he did the community service hours…for his own political action committee, which obviously isn’t a charity.”
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According to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jay-jones-walked-on-speeding-charge-that-landed-others-in-jail?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Jay+Jones+Walked+On+Speeding+Charge+That+Landed+Others+In+Jail">data</a> reviewed by <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/virginia-residents-jail-time-reckless-driving-jay-jones-community-service-virginia-democrat-attorney-general-candidate-new-kent-county-speeding">7News,</a> Jones appears to have been handled with kid gloves by the court system in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and others who committed similar infractions have faced much steeper consequences.
Reporter Nick Minock found that others who were convicted of similar speeding infractions — in approximately a dozen cases — often faced jail time in addition to fines and suspended licenses.
The text scandal appears to have moved the needle significantly in the race for Virginia attorney general. In polls from June to late September, Jones was leading Miyares consistently, but after the scandal broke, polling has shifted with Miyares now 0.3% ahead of Jones, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/attorney-general/general/2025/virginia/miyares-vs-jones">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger has also come under pressure due to the fallout from the texts. Her opponent, Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, released a scathing ad featuring Spanberger refusing to comment when confronted with Jones’ remarks.
Virginia Kruta contributed to this report.

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In the wake of a still-unfolding text scandal involving his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA) laid out what is really at stake in the coming election: what will happen to the &#8220;Virginia Way&#8221;?
Miyares spoke with The Daily Wire by phone on Tuesday, four days after a series of 2022 texts — sent by Democratic nominee Jay Jones to a Republican colleague — went viral, and he questioned whether the traditional collegial relationship between Virginia politicians, regardless of party, could survive the mindset behind them.
In the texts in question, sent to Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner, Jones had fantasized about the assassination of then state-House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, and declared that Gilbert would never change his political positions unless he and his wife were forced to watch one of their children die. He also said he&#8217;d like to &#8220;piss on the graves&#8221; of his political opponents.
&#8220;The &#8216;Virginia Way&#8217; has always been the idea that even though Washington might not be civil at times, [members of both parties in] Richmond will be civil with each other,&#8221; Miyares said. &#8220;That’s part of why what Jay Jones has done is so troubling.&#8221;
&#8220;He knows Jennifer Gilbert, that’s not a stranger. Todd would bring his children to the assembly, so when he sent those text messages, they were only two and five years old at the time,&#8221; Miyares explained. &#8220;So this is not some type of hypothetical; this is someone that he worked with, this was a colleague. Then to say that he wanted to see two bullets in his head and then imagine saying that the children would die in their mother’s arms — this was not a stranger. He’s met the mother, he’s met the children, and in his mind, pain is the only way that change happens. That is a — I don’t know how to get my arms around that.&#8221;
Miyares said several times that it was difficult for him to fathom the mindset behind the texts Jones sent — the idea that violence was a reasonable reaction to political opposition.
&#8220;I think this election now is really a referendum on the Virginia Way,&#8221; he observed. &#8220;Is it now dead? Because I could tell you ten years ago, it would have been unquestioned, not in a million years would anybody even consider — but there seems to be this mindset that power is more important than decency.&#8221;
He went on to remark that it wasn&#8217;t just Jones — there seemed to be an abundance of Democrats who were willing to say that what Jones texted had been bad, unconscionable even, but those same people were unwilling to say that such comments should disqualify Jones from holding public office.
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), for example, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, called for former Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) to resign over a 20-year-old blackface photo in a college yearbook — but she couldn&#8217;t bring herself to call for the resignation of a current candidate who&#8217;d called for the assassination of a colleague over political differences.
&#8220;Don’t forget the context of this,&#8221; Miyares added. &#8220;Jay was upset that Republicans had done a eulogy and said nice words in remembrance of a Democratic colleague and his reaction was that he wanted to ‘piss on the graves’ of his political opponents.&#8221;
Miyares, who is of Cuban descent, said that was the reason he found Jones&#8217; mindset so abhorrent – because he came from a &#8220;society where they would use violence to silence opinions.&#8221;
&#8220;Ideas were seen as so dangerous that it was morally excused to use violence to silence them. We said a long time ago in this country that we’re going to settle our debates at the ballot box and not with bullets,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The idea that somebody is seeking to be the top prosecutor — he’s never prosecuted a case in his life and would advocate violence against somebody he disagrees with and would want to piss on the graves of his opponents — I can’t imagine anybody in polite society thinking that’s acceptable.&#8221;
&#8220;My uncle Angel Miyares was arrested during the Bay of Pigs invasion,&#8221; Miyares recalled. &#8220;Castro arrested anybody that he thought could rise up against him on the island, and he was taken to an empty baseball stadium and he went through the humiliation of a mock execution. What was his crime? Ideas. His crime was simply — he was handing out anti-Castro leaflets in Havana. And he got put on Castro&#8217;s secret police radar, and they arrested him. When you suddenly take away someone’s individual dignity, their humanity, and you think that politics trumps their individual dignity, I can&#8217;t help that. I can&#8217;t – it is so outside of my worldview.&#8221;
Miyares brought the conversation back around to the &#8220;Virginia Way&#8221; and the idea that politics should not ever be an excuse to resort to violence.
&#8220;I view it as it’s not just me on the ballot this year, I view it as the &#8216;Virginia Way&#8217; and the idea that we are going to — yes, we will have a basic standard of decency in politics today, and I think that’s on the ballot,&#8221; he said.
His final thought on Jones was a question about whether or not he was suited to the office of attorney general.
&#8220;Crime does not know partisanship. Being the people’s protector means I protect everyone,&#8221; Miyares explained, adding that he wasn&#8217;t sure how someone who openly called for a political opponent&#8217;s assassination could approach the job in a way that did not reflect that. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s safe to say that where he is is a very different mindset.&#8221;

Jason Miyares takes over as the new Attorney General of Virginia.

Is The ‘Virginia Way’ Dead?: AG Jason Miyares Breaks Down What’s Really At Stake In Jay Jones Race

Is The 'Virginia Way' Dead?: AG Jason Miyares Breaks Down What's Really At Stake In Jay Jones Race

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President Donald Trump called out Virginia Democrat Jay Jones over nasty text messages he sent in 2022 — in which he suggested that then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert should be shot — and said that Jones should do the right thing and resign his campaign.
Trump made the <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115322323424244142">statement</a> on Sunday via his Truth Social platform, and in addition to calling on Jones to resign from the campaign, he declared that current Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA) had his full support in the race.
&#8220;It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK and DEMENTED jokes, if they were jokes at all, which were not funny, and that he wrote down and sent around to people, concerning the murdering of a Republican Legislator, his wife, and their children,&#8221; Trump posted.
The president went on to note that Virginia Democrats were not doing enough to distance themselves and the party from Jones and his previous statements.
&#8220;Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Governor, is weak and ineffective, and refuses to acknowledge what this Lunatic has done. Even Democrats are saying it is &#8216;RESIGNATION FROM CAMPAIGN&#8217; TERRITORY,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Democrat Jay Jones should drop out of the Race, IMMEDIATELY, and the People of Virginia must continue to have a GREAT Attorney General in Jason Miyares who, by the way, has my Complete and Total Endorsement — JASON WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!&#8221;
Jones made national headlines on Friday when a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reject-the-insanity-winsome-sears-hits-virginia-dems-with-ad-highlighting-vile-jay-jones-texts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series of his texts</a> from 2022 were published.
&#8220;Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones texted to Del. Carrie Coyner (R) at the time. “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.&#8221;
Jones also stated in another text that he would attend the funerals of Republican lawmakers in order to &#8220;piss on their graves,&#8221; and claimed that Gilbert would not be moved to change his political positions unless he and his wife had to watch one of their own children die.

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‘Not Funny’: Trump Trashes Jay Jones Over ‘Sick And Demented’ Texts Advocating Political Violence

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares sued the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ncaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NCAA</a> on Wednesday, accusing the organization of antitrust violations related to its name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies.
According to the <a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2024/pr24-10-NCAA.Antitrust.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee on Wednesday, the NCAA has been “artificially depressing” the amount of compensation prospective student-athletes can earn through NIL deals and their ability to negotiate those deals.
“This is all about protecting student athletes and prospective student athletes in making sure that they have market sources available to properly value their name, image, and likeness rights [because] the NCAA has a structure that artificially restricts the market in a way that hurts the student athletes,” Skrmetti told The Daily Wire.
“Student athletes are the heart of college sports and everybody else in college sports is getting rich, and the student athletes are getting left behind because of the lack of competition for their name, image, and likeness rights. That’s illegal and it’s not fair. It’s not right,” he added.
The lawsuit is aimed at rules from the NCAA that limit the ability of prospective student athletes to negotiate NIL rights. According to the suit, these rules harm athletes “at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar.”
The lawsuit says that the rule “bans prospective college athletes (including current college athletes looking to transfer to another school who are in the ‘transfer portal’) from discussing potential NIL opportunities before they actually enroll. It’s like a coach looking for a new job, and freely talking to many different schools, but being unable to negotiate salary until after he’s picked one (the depressive effect on coaches’ wages in such a dysfunctional market is obvious).”
The NCAA has said the rules act as necessary protections for student athletes after they were first allowed to pursue such deals in 2021.
Skrmetti said that the issue came to his attention last year after there was concern that the NCAA might institute a postseason ban for the University of Tennessee football team after recruiting violations that occurred under a former coach. He said the bowl ban would have harmed the NIL rights of the students who were not connected to the infractions.
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“Student-athletes generate massive revenues for the NCAA, its members, and corporations within the college sports industry, especially in football and basketball,” Miyares <a href="https://www.oag.state.va.us/media-center/news-releases/2680-january-31-2024-attorney-general-miyares-sues-ncaa-over-nil-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “Student athletes should have more freedom over negotiating and earning money for their skills and ability. Colleges and universities benefit dramatically from the success of their student athletes &#8212; it’s only fair that student athletes also get the full picture of how they may benefit from their choice of school as well.”
Skrmetti said that the suit wasn’t directed to protect any specific institution, but was about the rights of student athletes and the principle that “concentrated power causes harm.”
“I’m not for, necessarily, the Wild West of unregulated college sports, but what we have now is such an inconsistent and arbitrary and unfair system, there has to be some deep change to make sure that it both comports with the law and is doing right by student athletes,” he said.

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> elections official has been hit with corruption charges, including multiple felonies, from the office of Virginia Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jason-miyares" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Miyares</a>.
Michele White, who was the elections registrar for Prince William County from 2015-2021, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-virginia-indictments-d1ff4e7c2f368f5a2429654b64c44a4c">charged</a> with corrupt conduct as an election official, making a false statement, and willful neglect of duty in the months around the November <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2020-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 election</a>.
The alleged criminal actions “did not impact the outcome of any election contest,” according to Eric Olsen, the general registrar and director of elections for Prince William County, Virginia’s second most populous county.
Miyares, a Republican, initiated an investigation in White following the reporting of “discrepancies” from Olson earlier this year to the Virginia Commissioner of Elections and the State Board of Elections. White had resigned from her position in March 2021.
“The Electoral Board and new director of elections have built an entirely new leadership team that is dedicated to fair and accurate elections,” Olsen said in a statement. “Many improvements and best practices have been adopted to ensure a safe and transparent voting experience for the voters of Prince William County.”
The alleged corrupt actions took place from August-December 2020, according to officials. White also is accused of making a false statement during November 3-10, 2020. Miyares&#8217; office did not provide any additional details about the charges against White.
White, who had previously been an official in Culpeper County, gave no explanation to why she had stepped down from her position in March 2021.
According to the Prince William Times, the White’s resignation <a href="https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/former-prince-william-elections-director-indicted-for-alleged-corruption-lying-neglect-of-duty-in-2020/article_494ad6cc-2ef6-11ed-b070-5b323cddeb51.html">came</a> after an emergency meeting by the county’s electoral board. Electoral Board Secretary Keith Scarborough said that the meeting had pertained to White’s time with the election’s office.
During the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden won Prince William County by a large margin, earning nearly 63% of the vote.
In recent months, Miyares&#8217; office has also been involved in <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/former-virginia-deputy-attorney-general-files-suit-against-attorney-generals-office/">another</a> elections dispute as former Virginia deputy attorney general Monique Miles announced a suit last month against several Virginia officials. Miles claims that she was fired over her viewpoints related to the January 6 riot.
Miles was out at the office after the Washington Post uncovered a Facebook post where she said on January 6, “News Flash: Patriots have stormed the Capitol. No surprise. The deep state has awoken the sleeping giant.”
She claims that the office fired her and that she did not resign as was widely reported at the time.

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A group of GOP attorneys general urged Google in a letter not to censor search results in such a way that women would be blocked from seeing results directing them to pro-life pregnancy care centers.
Attorneys General Jason Miyares (R-VA) and Daniel Cameron (R-KY) led a group of 15 additional state attorneys general in the message to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday.
&#8220;Unfortunately, several national politicians now seek to wield Google’s immense market power by pressuring the company to discriminate against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in Google search results, in online advertising, and in its other products, such as Google Maps,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.oag.state.va.us/files/StateAttorneysGeneralLettertoGoogleJuly21,2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> read.
&#8220;As the chief legal officers of our respective States, we the undersigned Attorneys General are extremely troubled by this gallingly un-American political pressure. We wish to make this very clear to Google and the other market participants that it dwarfs: If you fail to resist this political pressure, we will act swiftly to protect American consumers from this dangerous axis of corporate and government power,&#8221; it added.
The Republican leaders warned that they would investigate any attempt to make changes to limit pro-life pregnancy center search results. This included &#8220;thorough investigations&#8221; to determine violations of antitrust laws, investigating potential &#8220;religious discrimination,&#8221; and &#8220;common carriage statutes&#8221; to protect consumers, according to the letter.
The letter concluded with the lawmakers arguing they will uphold &#8220;viewpoint diversity, free expression, and the freedom of religion for all Americans,&#8221; requesting answers from Google&#8217;s CEO within 14 days.
The letter also responded to a message last month to Google from Democratic lawmakers that <a href="https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/5/6/5698c724-cc0d-42f6-bbb6-b05e472b4564/26F26BB28841042A7931EEC58AC80E08.anti-abortion-letter-to-google-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the search engine to remove &#8220;anti-abortion &#8216;fake clinics'&#8221; from its search results. The letter, sent June 17, came one week prior to the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and returned laws regarding abortion to individual states.
In addition to arguing for the removal of pro-life pregnancy centers from search results, the Democratic lawmakers suggested an alternative that &#8220;at the very least&#8221; the pro-life services should be &#8220;appropriately labeled.&#8221; The letter also urged Google to take down ads from crisis pregnancy centers for organizations using Google Ads.
In an abortion-related policy change earlier this month, Google announced that it would automatically delete user data for visits to certain facilities, including abortion clinics.
“Some of the places people visit — including medical facilities like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, abortion clinics, fertility centers, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss clinics, cosmetic surgery clinics, and others — can be particularly personal,” the company <a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/protecting-peoples-privacy-on-health-topics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Today, we’re announcing that if our systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, we will delete these entries from Location History soon after they visit. This change will take effect in the coming weeks.”
Google also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/map-doxing-conservative-justices-violates-googles-terms-of-service-platform-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> actions following the Supreme Court ruling leak in May. A group called Ruth Sent Us publicly shared the addresses of the personal homes of Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch. In response, Google removed the map &#8220;due to a violation of our Terms of Service and/or policies.”

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Richmond police are investigating a bullet shot into a window of the Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares&#8217; office, The Daily Wire has learned.
&#8220;Capitol Police were called to the Barbara Johns Building at 7:13 p.m. Monday for a report of a bullet that may have been fired into the building from outside,&#8221; Public Information Officer Joe Macenka told The Daily Wire on Tuesday evening. &#8220;Officers found a bullet in a sixth-floor office that also had a small round hole near the top of a window.&#8221;
&#8220;Capitol Police are investigating the matter and have no further comment at this time,&#8221; he added.
In an email to the attorney general&#8217;s office viewed by The Daily Wire, Chief Deputy Attorney General Chuck Slemp informed colleagues that &#8220;a single round from a firearm was shot into a window of the Barbara Johns Building.&#8221;
&#8220;The round was located by housekeeping staff last night,&#8221; Slemp wrote. &#8220;The Capitol Police is actively investigating.  There is no indication that this incident was targeted at the OAG specifically or any individual employee.&#8221;
&#8220;The Attorney General and I spoke with the Chief of the Capitol Police last night,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The Capitol Police will be providing additional patrols by their officers over the next several days and will have an increased presence at our building for the foreseeable future.&#8221;
&#8220;We wanted you to hear this from us directly this morning before you come into the office,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Further, we want to assure you that your safety at work is of paramount importance to the Attorney General.  If you have concerns, questions, or would like to discuss this matter, feel free to contact me or the Deputy AG for your division.&#8221;
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Over the weekend, Miyares had weighed in on pro-abortion group&#8217;s threats to disturb Catholic masses on Mother&#8217;s Day with protesting.
&#8220;I deeply respect the First Amendment rights of speech and assembly,&#8221; Miyares tweeted Friday. &#8220;But no one has the right to interfere with the fundamental and natural right of all Virginians to practice their religion in peace.&#8221;
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I deeply respect the First Amendment rights of speech and assembly. But no one has the right to interfere with the fundamental and natural right of all Virginians to practice their religion in peace. <a href="https://t.co/LgNrhpPhdD">pic.twitter.com/LgNrhpPhdD</a>
&mdash; Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/1522962330144980994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The civil rights of Virginia’s worshipers will not be violated by any mobs. 
In Virginia, the law reigns supreme and Catholic Virginians’ right to worship in peace will be protected.
&mdash; Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/1522711182636994568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Virginia attorney general also tweeted that &#8220;the civil rights of Virginia’s worshipers will not be violated by any mobs,&#8221; adding, &#8220;In Virginia, the law reigns supreme and Catholic Virginians’ right to worship in peace will be protected.&#8221;
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Miyares also led GOP attorneys general in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-states-threaten-legal-action-mayorkas-disinformation-board">sending a letter</a> threatening legal action against the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s (DHS) new &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an unacceptable and downright alarming encroachment on every citizen’s right to express his or her opinions, engage in political debate, and disagree with the government,&#8221; the attorneys general told demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and his department in the Thursday letter.
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Virginia is leading a letter with 20 state attorneys general warning the federal government that policing citizens&#39; speech is a First Amendment violation. 
This level of federal overreach is un-American and will hurt our freedom of expression. <a href="https://t.co/HvNqCiEuQE">pic.twitter.com/HvNqCiEuQE</a>
&mdash; Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/1523748519168790528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slammed CNN host Jim Acosta on Wednesday night for suggesting that the commonwealth is now a &#8220;soviet-style police state&#8221; under Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.
&#8220;I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia,&#8221; Acosta <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-critical-race-theory-masks-jason-miyares-jim-acosta-cuba-soviet-education">said</a> on Tuesday night. &#8220;He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-virginia-is-a-soviet-style-police-state-under-gov-youngkin">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Acosta accused Youngkin of “pitting citizen against citizen” immediately after playing a clip of the governor promising to remove “inherently divisive teaching practices out of the schools.” Acosta seemed outraged by removing the racially polarizing CRT curriculum from taxpayer-funded schools — the chief campaign promise made by Youngkin and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears — which Acosta said violates “the traditional conservative tenets of liberty, anti-censorship and freedom.”
Acosta also slammed Youngkin for setting up a process for parents to complain if public school teachers violate the law by teaching racially divisive concepts, such as claiming all members of one race inherently oppress all members of other races. Acosta likened the measure to the Texas Heartbeat law, a pro-life protection that allows citizens to sue abortionists who perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy. “How concerned should we be, about these laws that seem to be catching on of, citizens ratting each other out?” he asked Jong-Fast, adding they encourage “canceling your neighbor across the street or next door.”</blockquote>
Miyares responded to Acosta&#8217;s remarks during a Fox News interview with host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, saying, &#8220;I think what Jim Acosta said — listen, my family fled Communist Cuba.&#8221;
&#8220;You want to talk about what &#8216;Soviet-style&#8217; looks like? It&#8217;s the opposite of freedom,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;So clearly, Jim Acosta maybe needs to take some history classes of what Soviet-style communism actually looks like. And [Virginia is] the opposite.&#8221;
&#8220;What we have said is parents matter. Listen, if you&#8217;re a parent and you want to mask your child for six, seven, eight hours a day, you absolutely have that right. That&#8217;s your individual decision,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The great irony of all this, is in Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, ‘Your loyalty is to the state,’ and parents have less control. This is about parental empowerment.&#8221;
Fox News reported that Miyares&#8217; uncle had been arrested at night by communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro&#8217;s secret police and that their home was &#8220;nationalized: in the name of fairness and equity.&#8221;
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Virginia’s AG Slams CNN’s Acosta For Claiming Virginia Is ‘Soviet-Style Police State’: ‘My Family Fled Cuba’

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Virginia&#8217;s new Attorney General Jason Miyares wasted no time in taking his office in a new direction after being sworn in on Saturday, as the Republican A.G. fired 30 staffers, including many attorneys who were unlikely to see eye-to-eye with his promises of enacting law and order in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The first statewide elected Latino in Virginia&#8217;s history also announced several new investigations aimed at increasing government transparency and making Old Dominion safer.
In a statement given to the <a href="https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/miyares-fires-30-in-ags-office-including-lawyer-investigating-dangerous-conditions-at-richmond-apartments/article_280125a7-9dda-58db-a0e0-667758fafd0f.html">Richmond Times-Dispatch</a>, Victoria LaCivita, a spokesperson for Miyares, defended the move, saying, &#8220;During the campaign, it was made clear that now-Attorney General-elect Miyares and Attorney General Herring have very different visions for the office.&#8221;
&#8220;We are restructuring the office, as every incoming AG has done in the past,&#8221; Civita added.
As a candidate, Miyares had stated that &#8220;George Soros-backed Commonwealth’s attorneys are not doing their jobs,&#8221; and he promised to prosecute crimes that progressive attorneys had ignored.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-ag-elect-miyares-seeks-legal-way-to-social-justice-das-and-do-their-job-for-them">reported</a> by Fox News, several Virginia prosecutors had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the progressive financier:
<blockquote>Liberal billionaire George Soros has repeatedly poured thousands into prosecutor&#8217;s races in Virginia. In 2019, Soros provided a significant cash infusion to three winning progressive candidates, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington County (nearly $1 million from Soros); Buta Biberaj in Loudon County ($850,000 from Soros); and Steve Descano in Fairfax County ($600,000 from Soros). Soros spent about $200,000 in a prosecutor&#8217;s race in Norfolk this year. His candidate went on to win the race.</blockquote>
As Attorney General-elect, Miyares also announced that he would be pursuing legislation under Governor Glen Youngkin (R) that &#8220;would essentially say, if the chief law enforcement officer in a jurisdiction – either the chief of police or the sheriff – makes a request because a commonwealth&#8217;s attorney is not doing their job, then I&#8217;m going to do their job for them.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m thinking specifically, some of the so-called ‘social justice’ commonwealth&#8217;s attorneys that have been elected particularly in Northern Virginia. We&#8217;re obviously aware of some pretty horrific cases,&#8221; he added.
On Saturday, hours after being sworn into office, Miyares launched two new investigations into the Virginia Parole Board as well as Loudoun County Public schools.
&#8220;One of the reasons Virginians get so fed up with government is the lack of transparency &#8211; and that’s a big issue here,&#8221; Miyares said in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginias-new-ag-miyares-announces-investigations-within-hours-loudoun-county">statement</a>. &#8220;The Virginia Parole Board broke the law when they let out murders, rapists, and cop killers early on their sentences without notifying the victims. Loudoun County Public Schools covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an additional assault of a young girl.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-youngkin-signs-11-orders-on-day-one-in-office-includes-crt-ban-investigating-loudoun-county-officials">reported</a> by The Daily Wire on Saturday, two of the 11 executive orders signed into law by Governor Youngkin dealt directly with Virginia&#8217;s parole board and LCPS:
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<li>Executive Order Number Three delivers on his Day One promise to restore integrity and confidence in the Parole Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia.</li>
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<li>Executive Order Number Four delivers on his Day One promise to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County.</li>
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Scandal plagued the Virginia Parole Board after it came to light that the board had allegedly been granting parole to cop killers and murderers without properly following procedure. The board is supposed to inform families of the victims, as well as prosecutors, who have a right to weigh on whether or not individuals should be given parole. But Virginia&#8217;s inspector general found those instructions had not been followed.
&#8220;It appears that neither the rules nor the law were followed,&#8221; Suffolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Phil Ferguson <a href="https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/va-parole-board-scandal-it-appears-that-neither-the-rules-nor-the-laws-were-followed/article_bff17105-202a-520b-9983-5c77976c34bd.html">said</a> in April of 2021.
&#8220;The three cases in Suffolk were among the worst people I’ve prosecuted in my many years as a prosecutor,&#8221; he added in reference to several convicted killers who had been granted parole. &#8220;The crimes were committed by people that maybe should have spent the rest of their life in prison.&#8221;
In Loudoun, as is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-school-board-blasted-over-daily-wire-sex-assault-report-parents-demand-resignations-end-this-nightmare">well documented</a> by The Daily Wire, school board officials have reportedly faced myriad scandals, including allegedly covering up a sexual assault in one of their schools. That cover-up appears to have been motivated by a desire to protect the county&#8217;s transgender bathroom policy.

Virginia’s New Attorney General Is Not Messing Around: Jason Miyares Fires 30 Staffers, Opens New Investigations

On Thursday, the new GOP Attorney General-Elect of Virginia, Jason Miyares, accompanied by Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman, announced he intended to investigate sexual assault incidents in Loudoun County Public Schools.
Drew Wilder of NBC Washington noted, “Attorney General-Elect Jason Miyares says he and Gov-Elect Youngkin will look to change Virginia law to allow the AG authority to step in when local officials feel the Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney is not doing an adequate job. Miyares specifically references northern Virginia.” He added, “AG-Elect Jason Miyares says he intends to investigate the sexual assault incidents in Loudoun County Public Schools.”
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NEW &#8211; Attorney General-Elect Jason Miyares says he and Gov-Elect Youngkin will look to change Virginia law to allow the AG authority to step in when local officials feel the Commonwealth&#39;s Attorney is not doing an adequate job. Miyares specifically references northern Virginia.
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When a reporter <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=409828950691571">asked him</a> whether he planned to “investigate Loudoun County Public Schools and the recent sexual assaults that have happened there,” Miyares bluntly answered, “Yes.” He also said:
<blockquote>One of our major legislative initiatives, which we had talked about on the campaign, was to allow us — right now, the way it works, is if a sitting commonwealth attorney requests it, we can come in and prosecute a case on their behalf. We’re going to be seeking a legislative change, and Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has already indicated that he would sign that into law — but a bill that would essentially save the chief law enforcement officer in jurisdiction, either the chief of police or the sheriff makes a request because the commonwealth’s attorney is not doing their job, then I’m going to do their job for them.
And I’m thinking specifically some of the so-called “social justice” commonwealth attorneys that have been elected, particularly in Northern Virginia. We obviously are aware of some pretty horrific cases that have made the public where they failed to do their job. And if there’s anything that I want to bring back to the forefront in this process, are the victims. I can tell you as a former prosecutor, there’s individuals that you remember: are the victims. I don’t remember the defendants as much. And so that’s been a little bit of my frustration, that I have seen, the victims have been forgotten. And when prosecutors are making plea deals on child-rape cases over the objection of the family, I have a serious problem with that.</blockquote>
As Luke Rosiak of The Daily Wire reported in a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says/">blockbuster story</a> that went viral nationwide, a father accused the Loudoun County Schools of attempting to conceal a sexual assault against his daughter in a school bathroom. Rosiak reported on October 11:
<blockquote>On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students. What people did not know is that weeks prior on May 28, Smith says, a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter.
Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith’s attorney Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy – one count of anal sodomy and one count of forcible fellatio – related to an incident that day at that school.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-prosecutor-defends-sending-alleged-teen-rapist-to-different-school-he-had-no-history/">added</a> on October 18, “Loudoun County prosecutor Buta Biberaj defended the decision to transfer a boy accused of sexually assaulting a female student in a girl&#8217;s bathroom to a different high school in the same school district late last week, telling local media that the boy had no prior record.”

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