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West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey speaks about the executive orders he issued on his first day in office at the State Capitol in Charleston on Tuesday January 14 2025 (Leah Willingham/AP)
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice signed a law Friday that supporters say promotes the free exchange of ideas in science classrooms, despite objections from opponents who said the vaguely ...
Though Justice won as a Democrat in 2016 and Manchin was reelected in 2018, West Virginia is a now a heavily Republican state — Trump took more than 68% of the vote there in both the 2016 and ...
The governor of West Virginia is the head of government of West Virginia [2] and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. [3] The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, [2] and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the West Virginia Legislature, [4] to convene the legislature at any time, [5] and, except when prosecution has been carried out by the House of ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday broke with West Virginia's GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country's strictest school vaccination policies. West Virginia is only one of a handful of states in the U.S. that offers only medical exemptions to vaccine requirements.
West Virginia Capitol Building. The Government of West Virginia is modeled after the Government of the United States, with three branches: the executive, consisting of the Governor of West Virginia and the other elected constitutional officers; the legislative, consisting of the West Virginia Legislature which includes the Senate and the House of Delegates; and the judicial, consisting of the ...
The 2020 West Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the governor of West Virginia, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Capito, Miller, Morrisey and West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner are the top four candidates jostling to replace outgoing Gov. Jim Justice (R), who is looking to make a jump to the Senate ...