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General Category => Political Discussion and Debate => Topic started by: taxed on August 09, 2018, 11:49:04 AM

Title: West Virginia voting to impeach entire State Supreme Court
Post by: taxed on August 09, 2018, 11:49:04 AM
This is what I call a "purge".

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636761241/west-virginia-house-panel-votes-to-impeach-entire-supreme-court

QuoteWest Virginia's House Judiciary Committee has adopted articles of impeachment against all four justices on the state's Supreme Court of Appeals, accusing the judges of a range of crimes and throwing the court's immediate future into disarray.

Approved on Tuesday afternoon, the articles of impeachment recommend that the entire bench — Chief Justice Margaret Workman, Justice Allen Loughry, Justice Robin Davis and Justice Elizabeth Walker – be impeached "for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors."

By law, West Virginia has five Supreme Court justices, who are elected to 12-year terms. But the bench was reduced to four in July, when Justice Menis Ketchum resigned — abruptly announcing his retirement just as impeachment proceedings were set to begin.

Many of the articles take aim at Loughry — whom a federal grand jury indicted in June on a number of serious charges that include fraud, witness tampering and lying to federal investigators.
Title: Re: West Virginia voting to impeach entire State Supreme Court
Post by: supsalemgr on August 09, 2018, 12:06:01 PM
Quote from: taxed on August 09, 2018, 11:49:04 AM
This is what I call a "purge".

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636761241/west-virginia-house-panel-votes-to-impeach-entire-supreme-court

There are swamps outside of Washington.
Title: Re: West Virginia voting to impeach entire State Supreme Court
Post by: Solar on August 09, 2018, 12:26:04 PM
Can't really say it was partisan, two Dims, two Pubs, but it is the Pubs leading the charge. :thumbup:
Title: Re: West Virginia voting to impeach entire State Supreme Court
Post by: supsalemgr on August 09, 2018, 12:50:50 PM
Quote from: Solar on August 09, 2018, 12:26:04 PM
Can't really say it was partisan, two Dims, two Pubs, but it is the Pubs leading the charge. :thumbup:

We know republicans are swamp dwellers as well.