Evidently, Gov. Patrick Morrisey is trying to be a one-man judicial hellhole.
His tendency to take actions that exceed his statutory and/or constitutional authority has resulted in a heaping helping of litigation filed against him. A few examples:
| Sending West Virginia National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. in support of Donald Trump’s declaration of a “crime emergency,” under demonstrably false claims that the city had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals.”
Trump has a gift in being able to take a nugget of reality – in this case, that many Americans have a fear of crime in big cities, regardless of whether that fear is overblown, driven by news media that gives disproportionate coverage to violent crimes – and then staging a response that is outrageously bl