Quick Facts on DSCC’s Lawsuit Against Jim Justice Over Refusal to Release Work Schedule

Justice faces Friday court ordered deadline to respond to DSCC suit  

On Friday, Governor Jim Justice’s response to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s (DSCC) lawsuit over his office’s refusal to release records pertaining to his official schedule or official calendar is due. Here’s what to know about the ongoing scandal ahead of the deadline:

• Justice’s office repeatedly failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests for his official schedule or official calendar.
• Justice has faced an ongoing scandal over his work schedule. The Associated Press reported Justice was “largely absent in job,” while the Charleston Gazette-Mail wrote that “work hasn’t always been top of mind for the two-term governor,” and he continues “refusing to release his official schedule and calendar.”
• Justice’s scandals have been the subject of repeated attacks by Alex Mooney, intensifying West Virginia Republicans’ “messy,” “costly,” and “bruising intraparty fight.”

This week, the DSCC also launched a new website, WhatIsJimJusticeHiding.com, highlighting the Governor’s refusal to release his work schedule and financial documents, questions about his stamina and well-being that have been raised by West Virginia media outlets, and the barrage of financial scandals that his primary opponent Alex Mooney is already attacking him over. 

See also: New Video: WV TV Highlights DSCC Lawsuit Against Jim Justice; On West Virginia TV: DSCC Sues Jim Justice Over Work Schedule Amid “Ongoing Scandal” That “Justice Was Largely Absent In Job”; What They’re Saying: DSCC Files Lawsuit Against Jim Justice Over Refusal to Release Work Schedule Amid “Ongoing Scandal”.

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