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Republican leaders in Virginia are blasting state Democrats for playing politics and usurping the courts after they blocked 14 of GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin's university board appointments last week, bringing the total to 22 blocked appointments since June.

The latest blockade comes just months before the state will elect a new governor and amid a push by the Trump administration to get Virginia universities to dismantle their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Just last month, one of the schools' boards, George Mason University (GMU), voted to both retain and give a raise to their president, who has defended the university's DEI policies against the Trump administration.

"Last week, eight Democrat Senators

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