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Corruption in the judiciary

West Virginia's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court lost his primary race this week in the wake of scandal.  West Virginia is Big Coal country, and Chief Justice Elliott Maynard was found to have cavorted in Monaco and on the French Riviera with Don Blankenship, CEO of a major energy company that just so happened to be a defendant in a $50 million suit that the WV Supreme Court later dismissed with Justice Maynard casting the deciding vote for the defense.

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