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Under pressure from some community members, Morgantown officials are again making moves to relocate unhoused community members living in the Diamond Village encampment. Poverty is not a crime, and people experiencing homelessness are afforded the same rights under the Constitution as everyone else.

By Nikki Zinzuwadia

The West Virginia Criminal Law Reform Coalition is calling on judicial officials throughout the state to make use of the newly passed bail reform law to lower jail populations and reduce the spread of COVID-19. 

In the current political climate with COVID-19 ravaging the nation, an economic downturn and great uncertainty for many Americans, there has never been a more pivotal time for voters to make themselves heard.

A federal judge today decided not to delay enforcement of a ruling in an important case regarding which candidates get to appear first on West Virginia’s ballots.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only laid bare the structural inequality in American society; it has also made that inequality deadlier.

Zachary Fancher is a student at Fairmont State University who will be working as an organizing intern with ACLU-WV this fall. 

For many years, West Virginia has used an unconstitutional method for determining the order that candidates appear on our ballots.  Under this method, officials give the top placement on the ballot to the candidate whose party won the last presidential election.