Moore Capito monitors a meeting of the Justice Committee of the House of Representatives on January 23, 2023. He was formerly the chairman of this committee before he resigned from the legislator in December 2023 to run for the governor. (Perry Bennett | West Virginia Legislative Photography)
President Donald Trump nominated Moore Capito on Tuesday as the US lawyer of the southern district of West Virginia, so A Social Media Post From his mother, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rw.va.
Shelley Moore Capitos post on X – she said that Jefferson County’s prosecutor, Matt Harvey, was nominated as the US lawyer of the northern half of the state – did not mention the relationship between her and Moore Capito.
Enthusiastic and extremely proud of it @Potus has selected two outstanding candidates for the US lawyers in West Virginia, Matt Harvey in the northern district and Moore Capito in the southern district. I look forward to supporting your quick confirmations so that you can go to work …
– Understood Shelley Moore (@Sencpito) July 1, 2025
Her praise for the appointment of her son on social media came just four minutes later She voted for the support the “big, beautiful bill” of her party, the closely existed The US Senate 51 to 50.
Bill lowers the financing of the Medicaid program and relocates the considerable costs for the supplementary program to support nutrition for the first time in states. West virginians in particular are particularly dependent on these social security networks, according to numerous interest representative groups.
In a statement on Tuesday, the West Virginia Democratic Party Shelley Moore Capito accused her vote on the expenditure law for the nomination of Moore Capito.
“You have to ask why Sen. Capito would be such an enthusiastic cheerleader for a law that West Virginia and its citizens are so devastating,” said Del. Mike Puschkin, chairman of the Democratic Party, in a statement. “A logical explanation is that it has an impact on a deal … her voice in return for her son’s political progress. If so, this is not a public service – that is corruption.”
Moore Capito was previously a Republican in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2016 to 2023. There he served as chairman of the house of Justice.
In 2024, he carried out a failed governor campaign and collected 27.6% of the voices of the race in the second highest voice, which was divided between four gigantic candidates-in the republican elementary school. He lost to the current governor Patrick Morrisey, who won 33.3% of the republican primary voices.
In A Explanation of XMoore Capito said it was “an honor” and that “Trump’s commitment to law and order makes our state safer and stronger”.
During his republican run for the governor, Moore Capito regularly made “sanctuary cities” and anti-transenter-rhetoric foods from him Campaign materialincluding in TV ads, mailers and more.
Last, Moore Capito works As a lawyer who represents “publicly traded and privately held customers in corporate mergers, acquisitions and sales as well as business structure, governance, trade contracts and real estate transactions” at the BABST calland law firm.
Harvey, Trump’s candidate for US lawyer in the northern district of West Virginia, has been Jefferson County’s prosecutor since 2017.
He is currently also the chairman of the West Virginia First FoundationA private non -profit organization created by the state legislator in 2023 to distribute an expected opioid settlement fund of $ 1 billion throughout West Virginia.
Both Moore Capito and Harvey must be confirmed by the congress before taking the offices for which they are nominated.
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