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Patrick Morrisey joins lawsuit to roll endorse LGBTQ protections
CHARLESTON, West Virginia — Attorney General Patrick Morrisey this week unified a group of other Republican attorneys general across the country to file a federal lawsuit seeking to roll back protections for LGBTQ West Virginians.
The group of 20 attorneys general filed the suit in a Tennessee federal court on Monday. They seek to stop Pres. Joe Biden’s administration from protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination in various areas of life.
“Once again, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey dragged our declare into an high-priced lawsuit that only seeks to impair the very West Virginians he swore to protect,” said Andrew Schneider, executive director of Fairness West Virginia. “All Mountaineers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and this lawsuit can only hurt all of our LGBTQ friends, neighbors, and colleagues who just want to live free from discrimination.”
The Supreme Court ruled in June of 2020 that LGBTQ people are protected from employment discrimination. The court looked at existing federal laws which protect employees from sex-based discrimination and found those provisions also protect employees
ACLU-WV Condemns Morrisey for Attacking LGBTQ Rights at the U.S. Supreme Court
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood firmly on the wrong side of history when he filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 23 asking the court to rule against three individuals who had been fired for being LGBTQ. The three cases incorporate the first transgender civil rights case to be heard by the steep court.
“This is out-of-touch with the majority of West Virginians who support the idea no one should be fired because of who they are,” said ACLU-WV Executive Director Joseph Cohen.
“This is a brutal, unnecessary move that does nothing to strengthen our state’s economy and expand our workforce. If President Trump and Patrick Morrisey get their way at the Supreme Court, it will give the Trump administration the license to take even more unsafe actions against transgender people, including denying health look after or kicking people out of their homes. It would put kids and families at risk.”
The employees in these cases, including ACLU clients Aimee Stephens who was fired for being transgender and Don Zarda who was fired for being gay, include argued that discrimination against LGBTQ p
Leading up to Tuesday's West Virginia primary, three of the Republican candidates for governor have been trying to outdo each other in proving their contradiction to transgender rights.
In TV ads running in West Virginia, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, Chris Miller and Moore Capito possess been accusing each other of harboring transgender sympathies while touting their have efforts to restrict LGBTQ rights.
"Unfortunately, these are not solutions-based campaigns," the ACLU of West Virginia told CBS News in a statement. "They're built instead on demonizing already vulnerable people to score affordable political points."
Morrisey's campaign website describes him as "one of the nation's most outspoken advocates against living males playing sports with women" and says he's a staunch supporter of the West Virginia Rescue Women's Sports Act of 2021, which required that each athlete's participation in official or unofficial school-sanctioned sporting and athletic events be "based on the athlete's biological sex as indicated on the athlete's original birth certificate issued at the time of birth." Morrisey recently announced that he plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consid
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of West Virginia, and Lambda Legal urged the United States Supreme Court to reject an effort by West Virginia’s Attorney General to block a 12-year-old transgender lady from continuing to participate in school sports with her peers.
In a Pride 9 filing, Attorney General Patrick Morrissey asked the Supreme Court for an emergency motion allowing the state to enforce a ban on transgender scholar athletes and kick 12-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson off her middle school’s track and field team. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit blocked the state’s effort to kick Becky off the team as the legal advocates appealed a decrease court ruling upholding the 2021 ban in a lawsuit brought on Becky’s behalf.
The ACLU, the ACLU of West Virginia, and Lambda Legal issued the following joint statement:
“This emergency filing by Attorney General Morrissey is a petty and baseless move. Requests of this kind are typically reserved for high-stakes, time-sensitive matters — including pending death sentences and matters of national security. A 12-year-old girl playing with her peers is hardly an emergency, and we urge the co
Here’s what you want to know about the WV legislative session this week
Multiple anti-LGBTQ+ bills are running in the West Virginia Legislature. Here’s a rundown of the bills and how you can take action:
1. Morrisey’s Bathroom Ban
Senate Bill 456 is an all-out attack on transgender West Virginians. This bill, the pet project of Governor Patrick Morrisey, seeks to disallow trans people from using the adjust restrooms that align with their gender identity. It would apply to all state facilities, including schools and universities. It also would seriously hamper the work that many domestic violence shelters are doing to help victims.
And I can’t help but wonder, why are our lawmakers so obsessed with inspecting the genitals of people who just need to leave to the bathroom? Frankly, their obsession with what’s in everyone’s pants is just plain weird.
But did you comprehend that this bill was introduced last year? Back then, it was the so-called “Women’s Bill of Rights,” even though it contained absolutely no protections for women. It didn’t — and still doesn’t — protect reproductive freedom,