CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General is bothered by “a dramatic uptick” in the amount of fentanyl coming into the state, and he says he might end up suing the Biden administration over it.
“This wildly expansive power to regulate factories, hospitals, and even homes has tremendous costs and consequences for all Americans, in particular West Virginia’s coal miners, pipeliners, natural gas producers, and utility workers,” Morrisey predicted. “If EPA lacks such expansive authority, as we argue, the Supreme Court should make that clear now.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito joined some Senate colleagues to introduce a bill that would prevent the president and other officials from blocking energy or mineral leasing and permitting on federal lands and waters without Congressional approval.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a six-state coalition telling President Joe Biden that state attorneys general will be vigilant in watching for and opposing federal overreach, especially when such action puts jobs and civil liberties at risk.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is poised to become one of the most important players in Washington if the Democrats manage to grab the two Georgia Senate seats.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office staff has received death threats following his decision to join an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit challenging election results in four swing states.
WHEELING – A former adviser to President Donald Trump is being accused of illegally intercepting text messages from her ex-husband and sharing them with her attorney.
CHARLESTON – A U.S. District judge has delayed an upcoming opioid trial after the defendant drug companies said it could be a “super-spreader” in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHARLESTON – Three major drug distributors are asking for a delay in an upcoming federal opioid trial, saying it could be a “super-spreader” in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to a minute order and entry on the case docket, denied Leandra English’s emergency motion for temporary restraining order after a motion hearing held Tuesday.
On Sunday, Leandra English, named the deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by former director Richard Cordray, filed a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump to block his naming of Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as the bureau’s acting director.
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed notice with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, asserting that the government has presently “decided not to advocate” for a specific salary level in its ongoing dispute with states over what workers should be eligible for overtime pay.
R. Alexander Acosta, President Donald Trump’s labor secretary nominee, faced members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, Committee during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, says the president doesn’t have “a reason not to” support the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency, or FACT, Act.
Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, remains the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, considered a thorn in the side of many Republicans. Some experts say they are surprised President Donald Trump hasn’t yet given Cordray the boot.
The groups take issue with President Donald Trump’s Jan. 30 order, “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,” which calls for rescinding two government regulations for every new rule introduced, along with interim guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, Feb. 2.
Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, in a detailed 81-page order released Wednesday, shot down each of the plaintiffs’ major arguments, most notably deciding that the rule does not exceed the U.S. Department of Labor’s authority.
The president’s order, signed Friday, instructs the U.S. Department of Labor to conduct a new study to determine whether the rule is likely to harm investors and the financial industry, and if it does, the rule can be rescinded or revised.
