CHARLESTON â A federal judge has ruled that a West Virginia transgender girl can, at least for now, play on the girls teams at her school, despite the Republican-dominated state Legislature passing a law this year to ban that.
Heather Jackson filed a lawsuit in May, saying her 11-year-old daughter, Becky Pepper-Jackson, wanted to try out for the cross-country and track teams at her Harrison County school for the upcoming school year.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin granted Wednesday a preliminary injunction to stop the enforcement of the law against just Pepper-Jackson while the case continues.
âWhether the law is facially unconstitutional is an issue raised in the Complaint and will be resolved at a later stage of litigation,â he wrote.
West Virginia GOP fractured by political appointment feud
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A member of the audience holds a Justice for All sign during West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice s election night watch party at The Greenbrier Resort, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – On a beach vacation in South Carolina with his family, Jay Marcum was awaiting a call from the governor of West Virginia. He was a finalist for the vacant seat of a state legislator who resigned after being charged with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol in the Jan. 6 riot.
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CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice maintains the first list of potential replacements from Wayne County to fill a recent House of Delegates vacancy did not meet state code, and the state Republican Party agrees.
The governor’s office, through Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office, submitted its response February 1 to a petition filed by Wayne County Republican Executive Committee Chairman Jeff Maynard, who says Justice did not follow law in how he chose a candidate to fill the seat vacated by Derrick Evans, the lawmaker who took part in the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
In its own response, the state Republican Party agrees with the governor’s office.
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