See also: What's with Kentucky's 3 impeachment efforts? The petitioners, on the other hand, bring this Committee a list of grievances and slights already dismissed and ruled constitutional and necessary by the judicial branch.' 'Impeachments in Kentucky have been reserved for serious misconduct in office. Often citing the decision of Kentucky's highest court, Beshear's response stated the petitioners 'fail to establish any wrongdoing by the Governor whatsoever,' let alone a misdemeanor rising to the serious level of an impeachable offense. 'This body must uphold the Commonwealth’s constitutional order and put an end to this vendetta that has no support in the law or reality.' 'They now present their increasingly violent demands and faulty, vague claims to this body in an effort to get another bite at the apple and to overturn both the will of the people and the reasoned judgments of the Kentucky Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, as well as various lower state and federal courts,' Beshear's response stated. Noting the Kentucky Supreme Court's unanimous decision in November upholding Beshear's authority to issue executive orders during an emergency, the governor's written response portrayed the petitioners as bitter over the failure of such litigation. 8 alleged Beshear had violated citizens' rights under the federal and state constitutions by his COVID-19 orders - including those limiting certain public gatherings, out-of-state travel and tenant evictions - as well as taking a large federal loan for the state's unemployment insurance fund and expanding access to absentee and early in-person voting.īeshear countered those allegations the following week in his daily COVID-19 press conference, highlighting past inflammatory rhetoric by the petitioners and comparing them to the violent insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. The petition submitted by four Kentuckians on Jan.

See also: Petitioners seek to remove Nemes as chair of impeachment committee Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, said the governor's response was not to be made public until the Wednesday meeting, though it was obtained and posted late Friday by The State Journal. Beshear's spokespersons have still declined to turn it over to The Courier Journal, though an open records request is pending.

The chairman of the impeachment committee, Rep. 'The Petition cites no facts and little law in a last-ditch effort to upend our constitutional separation of powers, hoping the General Assembly will ignore the judgments of the judicial branch as well as the will of the people in electing their chief executive,' stated Beshear's attorneys in the response.

The governor's attorneys urged the dismissal of the petition by the House impeachment committee, which was created by Republican leadership in early January and is set to have its next meeting Wednesday. Andy Beshear issued a 45-page response Friday to petitioners seeking to impeach him from office, deriding their 'baseless' claims against his emergency orders to slow the spread of COVID-19 as a 'vendetta that has no support in the law or reality.'

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