CHARLESTON West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has sent a letter to the leadership of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee opposing the nomination of Janet Gaven McCabe as deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“Ms. McCabe has twice been nominated for important positions at EPA, once by President Obama when the Senate was led by Senator Harry Reid, and again by President Obama when the Senate was led by Senator McConnell,” Morrisey wrote. “In each case, the result was the same her nomination was not confirmed and was returned to the President at the close of each Congress. These were the correct decisions. Her prior nominations were rightly not confirmed because Ms. McCabe was a key architect of the Clean Power Plan. For that same reason and many more, I am urging the Senate to once again not confirm Ms. McCabe.”
CHARLESTON West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a coalition of attorneys general asking congressional leadership to kill legislation that they say will undermine the integrity of U.S. elections.
CHARLESTON West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has advised Morgantown leaders again that his office believes the city’s proposed police reform ordinance would violate state law.
Morrisey sent a letter March 4 expressing concern an attempt by Morgantown City Council to create a Civilian Police Review and Advisory Board still would run afoul of the Legislature’s intent for the police civil service commissions to serve as a “complete and exclusive system” for the investigation and adjudication of police misconduct charges.
Even with the most problematic provisions eliminated, Morrisey said believes judicial precedent may require a court to strike down the ordinance in its entirety.
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During the past four years, Democratic state attorneys general filed a record number of lawsuits against the Trump administration’s executive orders. [1] Now as the Biden administration takes office, and with the shoe on the other foot, a coalition of six Republican state attorneys general come committed to use “all available means to combat potential federal overreach.” If the partisan divide remains in Congress, as foreshadowed by the current COVID-relief legislation, President Biden’s supporters will urge him to follow the lead of Presidents Obama and Trump and pass landmark policies through executive orders and federal agency regulations. If President Biden takes this road more traveled, we expect even more of the 26 Republican attorneys general to coalesce and file actions to halt such policies. [2]