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The University of Virginia is being executed by a circular firing squad. On Nov. 12, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger wrote the rector and vice rector of UVA’s Board of Visitors urging “the board to refrain from making any selections of finalists or ultimately a president until” after she is sworn in as governor.

The following day, Gov. Glenn Youngkin responded with a letter to Spanberger, on which he copied UVA’s full board. The governor thundered, “I am advised that this was likely the first time in the history of our commonwealth that a governor-elect attempted to interfere with the governance of a university and the fiduciary duties of individual board members.”

The same day as Youngkin’s letter, Rector Rachel Sheridan submitted an eigh

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