{"id":178820,"date":"2018-08-11T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/11\/this-is-weird-without-context-and-i-have-none\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:29:00","slug":"this-is-weird-without-context-and-i-have-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/11\/this-is-weird-without-context-and-i-have-none\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Weird without Context, and I Have None"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impeachment proceedings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvgazettemail.com\/news\/cops_and_courts\/wv-house-judiciary-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-all-supreme\/article_f4795b83-ba20-5ac8-a267-aeb4b10060fa.html\">have begun against all the remaining judges on the West Virginia Supreme Court<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee approved 14 articles of impeachment against the four sitting justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Tuesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The eighth day of the committee\u2019s meetings regarding possible impeachment produced the first material results when 14 articles of impeachment were introduced at 9:25 a.m.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">By the time the committee adjourned at 6:15 p.m., its members had added two new articles to their draft and rejected two of the original proposed articles, advancing the possibility of impeachment for the majority of the elected officials in the Mountain State\u2019s judicial branch of government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day, and it certainly isn\u2019t a cause for celebration,\u201d Judiciary Chairman John Shott, R-Mercer, said Tuesday as the articles were distributed to the 24 committee members present in the House chamber.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Those articles will now advance to the full House of Delegates for consideration. Speaker Pro Tempore John Overington, R-Berkeley, said Tuesday he called for the House to reconvene at 10 a.m. Monday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no clue as to what this is about, but there has to be a subtext.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeachment proceedings have begun against all the remaining judges on the West Virginia Supreme Court: The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee approved 14 articles of impeachment against the four sitting justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Tuesday.The eighth day of the committee\u2019s meetings regarding possible impeachment produced the first material results &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[407,449,374,421],"class_list":["post-178820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-justice","tag-legislation","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}