{"id":26871,"date":"2019-11-22T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=26871"},"modified":"2019-11-30T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:54:42","slug":"hampton-appeals-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/hampton-appeals-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampton Appeals Court Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18445\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2018\/03\/27\/kentucky-group-to-attend-trade-business-trip-in-canada\/jenean-hampton\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Jenean Hampton\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jenean Hampton is appealing a ruling that concluded Governor Matt Bevin\u2019s office acted within its authority when it fired her top two assistants.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hampton\u2019s attorney, Joshua Harp, says Hampton is appealing the decision to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Harp said Thursday that it\u2019s an important issue that needs to be taken up on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled that the governor has \u201csuperseding authority\u201d to hire and fire the lieutenant governor\u2019s staff and the lieutenant governor has none \u2014 unless the governor grants the authority.<\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary legal fight between Hampton and Bevin played out during the governor\u2019s race. Bevin was defeated by Democrat Andy Beshear in this month\u2019s election. Bevin and Hampton will leave office next month.<\/p>\n<p>Bevin dropped Hampton from his ticket early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jenean Hampton is appealing a ruling that concluded Governor Matt Bevin\u2019s office acted within its authority when it fired her top two assistants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-6Zp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-04 09:58:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Jenean-Hampton.jpg?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26872,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26871\/revisions\/26872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}