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The West Virginia state house took the remarkable step of voting to impeach three of the state Supreme Court’s four sitting justices Monday for a series of scandals, including missing antique desks, million-dollar office renovations, and general misappropriation of state funds, that has the entirety of the state’s highest court under threat of impeachment. After hours of debate Monday, the state’s House of Delegates approved articles of impeachment for Justices Allen Loughry and Robin Davis, as well as Chief Justice Margaret Workman, clearing the 50-vote hurdle required to send each case to the state Senate for trial and possible removal from office, subject to two-thirds of the upper house voting to convict.

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