{"id":1941620,"date":"2023-06-01T04:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-say-doj-has-gone-totally-rogue-after-lawsuit-against-2024-senate-contender\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T04:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:10:01","slug":"republicans-say-doj-has-gone-totally-rogue-after-lawsuit-against-2024-senate-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-say-doj-has-gone-totally-rogue-after-lawsuit-against-2024-senate-contender\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP claims DOJ is &#8216;totally rogue&#8217; for suing 2024 Senate hopeful."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-say-doj-has-gone-totally-rogue-after-lawsuit-against-2024-senate-contender%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1941620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republicans Blast DOJ Lawsuit Against West Virginia Governor&#8217;s Coal Companies<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0601\/aaf089aa-212a-4fc2-8881-159c17d19cc8\/audio.mp3?length=2841165&#038;duration=237\"><\/div>\n<p>Republicans are up in arms over the Department of Justice&#8217;s planned lawsuit against West Virginia Governor Jim Justice II&#8217;s coal companies. Justice is currently running for Senate against incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin, and the timing of the lawsuit has raised suspicions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats have seen the polls that show Jim Justice winning this race, and they&#8217;re panicking. So now the Biden Justice Department has decided to play politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211; Roman Stuffer, Justice&#8217;s Campaign Manager<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DOJ announced the lawsuit in a May 31 press release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-say-doj-has-gone-totally-rogue-after-lawsuit-against-2024-senate-contender\/\" title=\"GOP claims DOJ is 'totally rogue' for suing 2024 Senate hopeful.\">citing unpaid court fines<\/a> and reclamation fees. The charges relate to civil lawsuits ruled against Justice and other fees that he allegedly hasn&#8217;t paid. However, some find the timing of the charges suspicious, as they relate to years-old civil suits going back before the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchin&#8217;s Vulnerable Seat<\/h3>\n<p>Manchin&#8217;s Senate seat is considered one of the most vulnerable in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-donald-j-trump-aint-going-anywhere\/\" title=\"Sen. Cruz: Donald J. Trump ain\u2019t going anywhere\">upcoming election cycle<\/a>, with as many as ten Democrats on the defensive. Justice&#8217;s campaign immediately condemned the move, describing it as a purely political one.<\/p>\n<p>Justice, a second<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-legacy-media-convinced-americans-that-andrew-cuomo-was-a-hero\/\" title=\"How The Legacy Media Convinced Americans That Andrew Cuomo Was A Hero\">-term governor<\/a> who won his most recent election with 63 percent of the vote, recently announced his intention to run for Manchin&#8217;s Senate seat. Manchin, the only Democrat in the Senate who describes himself as a &#8220;conservative Democrat,&#8221; is still well to the left of deep-red West Virginia.<\/p>\n<h3>Competing Views<\/h3>\n<p>Justice&#8217;s top competitor for the GOP nomination, Rep. Alex Mooney, framed the issue differently. &#8220;Jim Justice&#8217;s long history of ripping off hardworking West Virginians, not paying his bills, and actions leading to the garnishment of his wages predate the Biden Administration,&#8221; Mooney said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans are criticizing the DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit against West Virginia Governor Jim Justice II&#8217;s coal companies.<\/li>\n<li>The timing of the charges, which relate to years-old civil suits, has raised suspicions.<\/li>\n<li>Justice is running for Senate against incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin, whose seat is considered one of the most vulnerable in the upcoming election cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Justice&#8217;s campaign has condemned the move as purely political, while his top competitor for the GOP nomination, Rep. Alex Mooney, has criticized Justice&#8217;s history of not paying his bills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans criticize DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit against West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice II&#8217;s coal companies, as he runs for Senate against incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The DOJ plans to sue Justice&#8217;s 13 coal companies for unpaid fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1941621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[9287,4506,4856,7076,6203,4566,3740,11582,12826],"class_list":["post-1941620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-rogue","tag-4506","tag-claims","tag-doj","tag-gop","tag-hopeful","tag-senate","tag-suing","tag-totally"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}