Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas — the President Pro Tem and one of the most powerful Democrats in the Commonwealth — just had the FBI raid 10 locations tied to her operation, including her Portsmouth office and her cannabis dispensary. The charges? Federal corruption and illegal marijuana sales. The irony? She’s the same woman who posted “Donald Trump just learned no one is above the law!” back in 2023. As political operative Caroline Wren put it when she resurfaced that tweet: “This aged well.”
Spoiler: it did not.
The FBI rolled in on Wednesday, and they didn’t come for a friendly chat. Ten locations. Her office. Her weed shop. The whole portfolio. And here’s the part that makes this absolutely bulletproof against the usual Democrat excuse playbook — this investigation was opened during the Biden administration. That’s right. Joe Biden’s own Justice Department started this probe. So when Virginia House Speaker Don Scott tried the predictable “this is political persecution” angle — saying, “Given the politicization of this administration — an FBI led by Kash Patel and a Justice Department run by President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney — I think people should take this with a grain of salt” — well, Don, the salt is that your boy Biden started this.
Facts are stubborn things.
Lucas isn’t just any state senator. She’s a Democratic power broker in Virginia who has been talking trash about Trump for years with the confidence of someone who thought the rules would never apply to her. In 2022, after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, she posted: “I want to see voters showing the kind of overwhelming numbers at the polls that the FBI showed today at Mar a Lago!” She was celebrating FBI raids on a former president. Now she’s the one getting raided.
You truly cannot make this stuff up.
Arlington County GOP Chair Matthew Hurtt noted that “Louise Lucas asked a Fox News reporter where else the FBI was raiding. Apparently, 10 locations.” That’s the kind of detail that tells you everything. She didn’t know how deep it went. She does now.
Former Virginia legislator Nick Freitas delivered what might be the single greatest dunk of the week, referencing Lucas’s favorite redistricting slogan — “ten to f-ing one” — which referred to a congressional map giving Democrats 10 of Virginia’s 11 districts. Freitas wrote: “@SenLouiseLucas: ’10 to f-ing 1′ FBI: ‘How about 10 to f-ing life.’”
Ouch.
And it gets better. Talk radio host Erick Erickson dropped this bomb, as reported by Fox News: “No wagons will be circled for Louise Lucas because the VA Dems have known for a while.” Read that again. Her own party knew this was coming, and nobody’s riding to the rescue. Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger, an ally, has been notably silent. Virginia Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones offered only that “we simply do not have sufficient information about the reported FBI activity in Portsmouth.”
That’s politician-speak for “I’m not touching this with a ten-foot pole.”
Even U.S. Representative Rob Wittman, representing Virginia’s Northern Neck, kept it measured: “Virginians expect their elected officials to serve with integrity and to put the interests of the Commonwealth first.” Translation: she didn’t.
The Libs of TikTok account couldn’t resist the layup either, posting: “Louise Lucas just learned no one is above the law!” Her own words. Her own standard. Applied to her.
This is what accountability looks like when you can’t hide behind a compliant media and a sympathetic DOJ. The investigation started under Biden. The evidence was strong enough to warrant raiding 10 locations. And the woman at the center of it all spent years gleefully cheering on the weaponization of federal law enforcement against her political opponents.
Well, Senator Lucas, welcome to your own standard. Nobody is above the law. You said it yourself.
