""I am disappointed that the Supreme Court of Virginia has refused to decide whether or not one committee of one chamber in the General Assembly can unilaterally, with merely a handful of members of one party, remove incredibly qualified public servants who have been serving Virginia's higher education institutions admirably for months," the governor said in the statement. "The Senate committee did so without debate or reasoning or providing an opportunity for input"
""Supreme Court of Virginia has affirmed the Senate P&E Committees authority to reject gubernatorial nominations because MAGA rules don't work in Virginia where we still have a rule of law that Youngkin and Miyares have to follow,""
Multiple gubernatorial higher-education board nominees were rejected earlier this year by the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee. Governor Glenn Youngkin argued that only action by the full Senate could block his appointments and that nominees should serve until rejected. Democrats sued, and a Fairfax Circuit Court judge issued an injunction in July preventing rejected nominees from serving. Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares challenged that injunction and the state Supreme Court heard oral arguments. The Virginia Supreme Court declined to review the lower-court injunction, returning the legal fight to the Circuit Court.
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