Patrick morrisey wv biography

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Political party affiliations: Republican : 29 26 states Democratic : 27 24 states, 4 territories, 1 district Independent : 1 1 territory. Hidden categories: Articles with hAudio microformats Webarchive template wayback links American people stubs. Toggle the table of contents. The next day, Morrisey and 19 other state attorneys general sent Senate leaders a letter expressing support for Gorsuch and urging his immediate confirmation.

Morrisey said he wrote the letter out of concern for the court's impact on West Virginia residents, citing a court decision 5—4, with Scalia in the majority to stay President Obama's Clean Power Plan , which Morrisey believed would put people out of work. By December , Paxton was under indictment on securities fraud charges relating to activities before he took office, [ 87 ] [ 88 ] and in October , numerous high-level assistants of his own office accused him of involvement in "bribery, abuse of office and other crimes".

Morrisey signed an amicus brief led by Paxton seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election by challenging election processes in four states Trump lost. The news came after West Virginia Governor Jim Justice , who had yet to congratulate Biden for winning the presidency, said Trump called him to discuss the lawsuit. He said he encouraged Morrisey to join Paxton's effort.

Secretary of State Mac Warner was the last in the nation to certify his state's winner in the presidential race. He called the Texas lawsuit a "novel approach" and supported letting the courts decide. Texas and 16 other state attorneys general [ 92 ] [ 93 ] who supported Paxton's challenge of the election results alleged numerous instances of unconstitutional actions in the four states' presidential ballot tallies, arguments that had already been rejected in other state and federal courts.

Pennsylvania , Paxton asked the United States Supreme Court to invalidate the states' 62 electoral votes, allowing Trump to be declared the winner of the election. Senator Ben Sasse said it "looks like a fella begging for a pardon filed a PR stunt", in reference to Paxton's securities fraud charges and abuse of office allegations.

Supreme Court quickly rejected the suit in an unsigned opinion. Morissey has been described as an "ideologue" and "a true believer" in Conservatism who is more likely to push "a very aggressive conservative agenda" by WV Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin , one of his political opponents. Morrisey opposes abortion [ ] and joined 12 states in supporting a brief in favor of North Carolina's week abortion ban.

Senate by West Virginians for Life. During that race, he opposed a constitutional amendment banning abortion and supported exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Morrisey was a staunch supporter of overturning Roe v. Morrisey has pledged to make West Virginia more economically competative by cutting the state income tax.

He has "doggedly" defended laws creating a school voucher -esque savings account program, pledged to promote civics education and "eliminate the woke virus from the schools. He said that under him West Virginia's schools will be for learning and not social experiments, radical agendas, brainwashing and "confusion about the differences between boys and girls".

Morrisey promoted a "Combating Addiction with Grace" partnership, a joint effort between law enforcement and faith leaders to combat opioid abuse. Morrisey supported President Trump's declaration of the opioid crisis as a national emergency. Morrisey led a coalition of state attorneys general in defending the right of states to prohibit sanctuary cities within their borders.

A unanimous federal appeals court decision found in favor of the states. Morrisey has advocated a law prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in West Virginia and repeatedly defended it in court as attorney general. Morrisey has said that he will ask the U. He delayed implementation for six months to allow Congress the time to legislate a solution for young people eligible for DACA.

Morrisey said: "I applaud President Trump for having the courage of his convictions to uphold the rule of law and stop this Obama-era program. DACA was unconstitutional and represented an unlawful, unilateral action by the Obama administration. In June , Morrisey was among Republican candidates for the U. Senate seeking blame the Trump administration family separation policy on their Democratic opponents.

He criticized Joe Manchin for supporting the "Keep Families Together Act" authored by Dianne Feinstein , arguing that Manchin was "putting the interest of illegal immigrant criminals and the agenda of liberal Washington elites ahead of West Virginia families. In , questions arose about Morrisey's ties to Cardinal Health , his campaign funds, and the ongoing lawsuit against Cardinal Health.

After Morrisey said he had recused himself from the suit, he met privately on several occasions with representatives of the company. Morrisey issued an executive order to enable families to seek religious exemptions from required school vaccine requirements in West Virginia on his first day of office as the Governor. In , Morrisey joined a coalition of 50 state and territorial attorneys general in pushing Congress to pass legislation that would affirm that all law enforcement agencies retain their traditional authority to fight sex trafficking.

In a letter to Congress, the group asked to amend the Communications Decency Act to legally confirm that states, localities, and territories retain authority to investigate and prosecute child sex trafficking criminals wherever they operate, including online. On July 10, , Morrisey announced his candidacy for the U. Senate seat held by Joe Manchin.

In general election, Manchin defeated Morrisey with Libertarian candidate Rusty Hollen received 4. On April 4, , Morrisey announced his candidacy for governor of West Virginia in the election. Williams , the mayor of Huntington, West Virginia , in the general election. On January 13, , Morrisey was sworn in as governor of West Virginia. Morrisey moved to Jefferson County, West Virginia in Contents move to sidebar hide.

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Career in politics, law, and lobbying [ edit ]. Attorney General [ edit ]. Federal lawsuits [ edit ]. DEA opioid lawsuit [ edit ]. Environmental Protection Agency [ edit ]. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [ edit ]. Clean Power Plan litigation [ edit ]. Second Amendment [ edit ]. Supreme Court [ edit ]. Political positions [ edit ].

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Patrick morrisey wv biography

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