Imagine that you come across someone committing a rape. You start to intervene, but the perpetrator holds up an official-looking insignia, and says that you have to let him ‘finish his term’ before you can make him stop, so you should come back in a couple of hours.
I imagine there are a lot of voters in Virginia just now — and in New Hampshire, too, for that matter — who are feeling like they’re in a similar situation. Do they really have to wait until the next election for relief?