Virginia Senate Panel Rejects 14 More Youngkin Appointees to University Boards

Virginia Senate panel rejects 14 more Youngkin appointees to university boards

State Senate Democrats’ battle with Gov. Glenn Youngkin over college and university boards entered a new phase as a key Senate committee again derailed a new round of Youngkin’s appointees.

Virginia Democrats reject more of Youngkin’s picks for college boards

A panel of Virginia senators on Thursday rejected more of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s picks to serve on college boards, intensifying a showdown between the administration and lawmakers and plunging the state’s institutions of higher education into legal limbo.

Senate committee Democrats block 14 more Youngkin appointees from Va. college boards

Leading Democratic leaders urged Gov. Glenn Youngkin to suspend any further appointments to Virginia’s university governing boards, after a state Senate committee rejected 14 of his appointments on Thursday. The committee has axed a total of 22 Youngkin appointments, including…

Virginia Democrats reject more Youngkin picks for college boards

Senate Democrats block 14 more university appointments, ask Youngkin to cease making more

By Andrew Kerley Senate Democrats asked Gov. Glenn Youngkin to cease appointing more members to the governing boards of three Virginia universities after blocking 14 more of them in a Senate meeting Thursday. The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee voted to block 14 of Youngkin’s appointments to George Mason University, Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia on Thursday, citing concerns of partisanship. The panel blocke…