West Virginia House impeaches its entire Supreme Court

[smurfy]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-impeach-all-four-state-supreme-court-justices/

Impeachment trials will now be held in the Senate

[Borealis]

One already resigned before this.

[JohnnyMo]

I have a coworker who lived in WV who was complaining to me about this. Republicans being absolutely disgusting as usual:

Minority Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee that approved the articles last week had tried to speed up the impeachment process in the hopes of beating an Aug. 14 deadline for arranging a special election in November if any justice is removed from office or leaves office. Instead, the committee took its time, even conducting a tour of the state Supreme Court offices earlier this month.

Republican Gov. Jim Justice will be allowed to appoint new justices to replace any who are impeached — with no requirement that they be from the same party as the incumbent.

Absolutely totalitarian.

[elix]

Impeach the governor next.

[Borealis]

He is a billionaire coal magnate who owns the Greenbrier hotel and switched to Dem in 2015 and back to GOP at a Trump rally.

[elix]

An oligarch in waiting, then.

[Borealis]

The GOP guy running against him in 2016 was pretty terrible too, as president of the state senate he overruled the previous governor's veto on a right to work law and a law banning abortions after week 20.

[Judas]

this is the most american sentence I have ever read

[Clovis]

Just needs a y'all and it'd be perfect.

[elix]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/14/west-virginias-efforts-impeach-states-supreme-court-is-just-latest-worrisome-trend/

On the outside, this looks good, but underneath, it's actually scary.