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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office has joined two multistate coalitions it says are aimed at protecting women’s health by urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of individual states to regulate abortion within their borders.
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey expressed optimism Wednesday after arguments to uphold the state’s right-to-work law, believing his office put forth a strong case before the state Supreme Court of Appeals on why the measure is constitutional.
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BECKLEY – A federal judge ignored a magistrate’s recommendation to void Don Blankenship’s 2015 conviction. In response, Blankenship thanked the judge for doing so.
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CHARLESTON – After state Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the state’s right-to-work law, leaders from both sides say they feel confident about their position.
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CHARLESTON – Democratic lawmakers and others are criticizing Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s proposal to protect West Virginia residents with preexisting health conditions. Morrisey, however, stands by the bill called the West Virginia Healthcare Continuity Act.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 200 lawmakers filed an amicus brief in support of June Medical Services in a case seeking to have the high court reconsider two abortion decisions.
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DUNBAR – The estate of a federal appeals court judge who graduated from West Virginia State University provided $100,000 to a scholarship fund established in his honor at the university.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a 21-state coalition in supporting the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
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Message to all the green bullies: Oil is good, pipelines are good, and we’re not giving them up.
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CHARLESTON – Beginning in earnest since the New Deal in the 1930s, Congress has created an unfathomable amount of executive agencies and tasked them with filling in the details of unfinished legislation. Today, executive agencies are given large swaths of authority — and money — to regulate nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Agency rulemaking has replaced congressional lawmaking at the expense of democratic accountability
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading an 18-state alliance urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked construction on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined an 18-state coalition in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review, and ultimately overturn, a lower court ruling that would prohibit gun owners from carrying a firearm when crossing state lines.
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HUNTINGTON — The next lecture in Marshall University's Amicus Curiae Lecture Series is scheduled for Nov. 12, where Judge David J. Barron will speak at the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall.
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CHARLESTON – With respect to a recent op-ed penned by my friend and former Mayor of Charleston Danny Jones, President Trump will be re-elected in 2020. Not only will President Trump be re-elected, but he will also prevail by a larger margin in 2020 than in 2016.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey praised the U.S. Senate for rejecting a resolution he says was an attempt to revoke the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of the dismissal of the articles of impeachment against state Supreme Court Justice Margaret Workman.
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CHARLESTON – Sept. 17 is Constitution Day and an opportunity to celebrate our rights enshrined there. One of the most important is trial by jury. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
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BECKLEY – Don Blankenship is asking a federal judge to reject a magistrate’s recommendation that his misdemeanor conviction be voided.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a group of officials from 20 states in supporting the Trump Administration’s pro-coal, Affordable Clean Energy rule as it faces a challenge in court by Democrat attorneys general.
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HUNTINGTON — Marshall University's Amicus Curiae Lecture Series on Constitutional Democracy will begin Sept. 11 with a lecture by author Richard Brookhiser.