State Ex Rel. Holmes v. Clawges

KETCHUM, Justice:

The Clerk of the West Virginia Senate and the Clerk of the West Virginia House of Delegates petition this Court for a writ of prohibition to halt the enforcement against them of two orders by a circuit court. The circuit court ordered the Clerks to remove from the official journals of the Senate and the House of Delegates any mention of a particular pardon that had been granted by the Governor, and later communicated by the Governor to the Senate and the House of Delegates. When the Clerks refused to remove any mention of the pardon from the official journals, or to redact…