Entire West Virginia Supreme Court Hit With Articles Of Impeachment

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Entire West Virginia Supreme Court Hit With Articles Of Impeachment
by The Ring of Fire , Published on Aug 15, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrM83wYPJQI
  "The state Supreme Court of West Virginia is facing impeachment – the
   ENTIRE court. The state legislature this week approved the articles of
   impeachment after a lengthy investigation revealed a major spending
   scandal among the justices, which included them spending $34,000 on a
   couch, in addition to other unnecessary renovations of their offices.
   Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what this could mean for the
   future of that court system.

   Link – https://www.alternet.org/west-virgini... "

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The entire West Virginia Supreme Court was just impeached. Here's everything you need to know
Posted on August 15, 2018 by True Pundit Staff
https://truepundit.com/the-entire-west-virginia-supreme-court-was-just-impeached-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/


  "West Virginia lawmakers made a historic decision Monday: They voted to
   impeach the state's entire Supreme Court of Appeals, the highest court
   in the state.
   
   The West Virginia House of Delegates Judiciary Committee approved 14
   articles of impeachment against the court's four sitting justices last
   week. Their alleged grievances ranged from misusing taxpayer money for
   office renovations to using state-owned property, including a historic
   desk, for personal use.
   
   The full House of Delegates considered the articles of impeachment on
   Monday, ultimately approving 11 of them through a series of votes that
   fell along party lines, the New York Times reported.
   
   Eight of the articles targeted the court's chief justice, Allen
   Loughry, who, according to the Times, has been suspended since June.
   Among other accusations, he is accused of lying to lawmakers and using
   state property for his personal use, including vehicles and gas cards.
   
   The remaining justices — acting Chief Justice Margaret Workman and
   Justices Robin Davis and Elizabeth Walker — were impeached on three
   articles. Workman and Davis were impeached for overpaying senior status
   judges on lower courts, while Davis was impeached for misusing $500,000
   in taxpayer funds on office renovations.
   
   All four justices were charged with neglect of duty, abusing their
   power, and failing to reign in the spending of the others, according to
   NBC News.
   
   The court's fifth justice, Menis Ketchum, resigned last month before
   impeachment proceedings began. He has also pleaded guilty to a federal
   charge of defrauding the state of West Virginia. He faces 20 years in
   federal prison.
   
   Meanwhile, Loughry, who was already on administrative leave prior to
   Monday's developments, is facing a 22-count federal indictment for
   fraud, witness tampering, lying to federal investigators, and
   obstruction of justice. His criminal trial is set to begin in October.
   If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of 395 years in prison and
   a $5.5 million fine. – READ MORE
   
   
   West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael claims the Republican
   party is responsible for the state's economic turnaround and believes
   the election of President Donald Trump has only added to their
   prosperity.
   
   "For the first time in over 83 years the people of over West Virginia
   selected the Republicans to lead the state in 2014," Carmichael told
   The Daily Caller News Foundation. "Both houses have been Democrat for
   83 years and that leadership brought us the lowest income per capita in
   the country."
   
   Carmichael blamed Democratic leadership for a loss in population and
   manufacturing jobs, then accused them of selling out to special
   interest groups.
   
   Carmichael then praised Trump's leadership and said the state was
   economically liberated when he was elected to the White House in 2016.
   
   "Trump was an immediate relief to the energy sector," Carmichael
   declared. "The night of the election it felt like the boot of the fed
   government had been lifted off our necks. President Trump has made a
   tremendous difference."
   
   One of the main issues still lingering for West Virginia is the opioid
   crisis, but Carmichael believes it can be tied to the state's lack of
   economic prosperity.
   
   "The most prominent area of opioid abuse are the places with the
   poorest economic climate," he said. "Even in West Virginia, the
   specific areas hardest hit with addiction are the ones hardest hit
   economically with high unemployment." – READ MORE "

[yankeedoodle]

Judges in West Virginia are as corrupt as the come.  The are all reportedly masons, of course.

I live in West Virginia, and brought a pro se suit against a government department, and was sent - accidentally...intentionally...who knows? - by the opposing attorney a document that proved my case, and, when I produced this document in the courtroom, the judge exclaimed "That's a smoking gun if I ever saw one."

In the courtroom, the judge never ever looked at me, and only looked at and addressed and spoke to the opposing attorney in the courtroom.

Weeks later, after declaring that I had a "smoking gun," he ruled against me.

Later, the fat little bastard was given a temporary appointment to...you guessed it...the West Virginia Supreme Court.

[yankeedoodle]

Actually have a very small share in West Virginia gas, and get a small check, made smaller by "marketing" deductions that I never really understood why I had to pay for.  This fucking bitch did it!

How One West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Gave Natural Gas a Big Victory and Shortchanged Residents
https://www.propublica.org/article/west-virginia-supreme-court-justice-beth-walker-gave-natural-gas-a-big-victory-and-shortchanged-residents

Justice Beth Walker voted to reopen an already decided case around the time her husband owned stock in a variety of energy companies. And that's not even why she's been impeached.
[...]
The case focused on whether natural gas companies are allowed to deduct a variety of expenses — for the transportation and processing of gas, for example — when they calculate payments for West Virginia residents or companies that lease them drilling rights to their gas. Millions of dollars in gas royalty payments, the riches from the industry's dramatic growth in West Virginia over the past decade, were at stake.