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> What we are witnessing in West Virginia today is a government destroying itself. It began as a partisan power grab. It may end in the destruction of an entire state judiciary

Given the amount of criminality and conviction, I see this as a good thing. Treating the political elites as something more than citizens, is already a corruption of the state body.

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Really? You approve of Republicans in both houses and the governors office wholesale impeachment of an entire Court? Does the fact that the Governor get to appoint replacements not suggest some sort of power grab going on?

> Does the fact that the Governor get to appoint replacements not suggest some sort of power grab going on?

That's doesn't invalidate wrongdoing. I am neither R nor D due to their long standing hipocrisy as organizations.

Wouldn't the destruction of the judiciary be akin to continuing the treatment of the political elites as more than citizens? As they're the ones who filed charges, lost in court, and now apparently are proceeding to disregard the courts ruling anyways?

I've not seen too many citizens who're able to disregard court rulings.

> Wouldn't the destruction of the judiciary be akin to continuing the treatment of the political elites as more than citizens?

I don't see how. The court isn't filled with superhumans. They are people and people are fallible, even in groups (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal). If it happens to dismantle a governing body, that's how accountability is supposed to work. That is a possibility.

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