CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Raleigh County judge is moving forward with a case involving religious vaccine exemptions, agreeing to consolidate two different cases raising questions about Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order, but rejected a request for a stay while an appeal to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is pending.

Meanwhile, Morrisey and the nation’s top health official are challenging state lawmakers to codify a religious exemption to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization law for school-age children as soon as possible.

Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Froble issued rulings on several motions Monday afternoon in Raleigh County Circuit Court in Beckley. Froble granted a motion filed by the West Virginia Attorney General’s Office seeking to combine a case brought

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