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STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS For The Intelligencer CHARLESTON The Republicans in the West Virginia House of Delegates flexed their supermajority muscle in passing a constitutional amendment that makes it clear that the buck stops with the Legislature when it comes to impeachments. House Joint Resolution 2, providing that courts have no authority or jurisdiction to intervene in or interfere with any impeachment proceedings of the House of Delegates or the Senate, was adopted 78-21. Joint resolutions require a two-thirds vote by both the House and state Senate, which is 67 members in the House. Not only did HJR 2 easily received the two-thirds vote needed, Democratic delegates Mick Bates, D-Raleigh, and Cody Thompson, D-Randolph, crossed party lines to vote with the Republican supermajority. ....
CHARLESTON — In spring 1982, Joanna Tabit was readying for her senior year in college and weighing law school when she learned then-Gov. Jay Rockefeller had appointed Margaret Workman as ....
[email protected] Incoming Chief Justice Evan Jenkins has a virtual meeting with fifth grade students at South Jefferson Elementary in Jefferson County on Dec. 2. (Photo Provided) CHARLESTON Justice Evan Jenkins, the incoming chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals for 2021, said there was still work to do to restore faith in the judicial branch but the court is heading in a good direction. “We’re going to get off the bench and get out into the public to not only share with public the reforms we put in place, but to reassure them that our commitment will continue and our work is not done,” Jenkins said in a phone interview talking about his goals for the next year. ....
For The Inter-Mountain Photo Courtesy of J. Alex Wilson â WV Supreme Court of Appeals Incoming Chief Justice Evan Jenkins has a virtual meeting with fifth-grade students at South Jefferson Elementary in Jefferson County on Dec. 2. CHARLESTON Justice Evan Jenkins, the incoming chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals for 2021, said there was still work to do to restore faith in the judicial branch but the court is heading in a good direction. “We’re going to get off the bench and get out into the public to not only share with public the reforms we put in place, but to reassure them that our commitment will continue and our work is not done,” Jenkins said in a phone interview talking about his goals for the next year. ....
Staff writer Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Justice, Evan Jenkins has a virtual meeting with Alison Moody’s 5th grade students at South Jefferson Elementary in Jefferson County, WV. December 2, 2020. (J. Alex Wilson - Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia) CHARLESTON Work remains to restore faith in the judicial branch, but the court is heading in a good direction, the incoming chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court said. “We’re going to get off the bench and get out into the public to not only share with the public the reforms we put in place, but to reassure them that our commitment will continue and our work is not done,” Justice Evan Jenkins said in a phone interview about his goals for the next year. ....