By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail
I approach Wednesday’s resumption of the 60-day regular session of the Legislature with much trepidation.
As I’ve noted, most of the guardrails will be gone this session, most notably, the rational and reasoned leadership of former Senate Judiciary Chairman Charlie Trump, R-Morgan, who managed to stop (or at least tone down) some of the most egregious legislative proposals.
With the 2024 election, moderate Republicans like now-state Supreme Court Justice Trump are an increasingly rare species in the Legislature, and I fear that a Legislature without guardrails will operate much like the man in Washington who, without guardrails or respect for laws or the Constitution, is systematically plunging the country into chaos. (More on that momentarily.)
And, while it is inside baseball, much has been discussed and written about the pending House Resolution 1, which proposes multiple major changes to the operating rules of the House of Delegates.
