Last week, a judge transferred that lawsuit over to the South Carolina Supreme Court at the state’s request, and at this point, it is up to that court to decide if it will take up the case.
Joe Cunningham has chosen Tally Parham Casey, a civil litigator who flew fighter jets during three combat tours over Iraq, to be his running mate in his quest to become South Carolina’s first Democratic governor in 20 years.
South Carolina joined a 17-state coalition challenging the Biden administration’s proposed gun laws claiming it threatens the privacy of every gun owner.
South Carolina’s attorney general joined 21 other attorneys general in a lawsuit filed Tuesday over what calls new White House guidance on sex discrimination that threats schools and programs that rely on federal nutrition assistance.
Adair Ford Boroughs was officially sworn in Tuesday as the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina after being nominated by President Biden in June.
The panel convened for its second meeting Tuesday in Columbia, about two weeks after hearing seven hours of public testimony on the issue at its first meeting.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench.
So, for pregnant South Carolinians, the closest access to abortion services would be in North Carolina, especially at clinics closest to the border in Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, and Wilmington.
DHEC data lays out the demographics of who was receiving abortions in South Carolina before the Supreme Court brought an end to the Roe v. Wade precedent.
A House ad hoc committee tasked with laying the groundwork for this change met and heard from members of the public for the first time Thursday in Columbia.
Most abortions in South Carolina are now prohibited after six weeks, the state’s new law does allow for exceptions for rape and incest at up to 20 weeks.
Nearly 20 states and the District of Columbia have these measures in place, which allow courts to temporarily take away someone’s guns if they are determined to be a threat to themselves or others.
Gov. Henry McMaster and former state superintendents of education had called the way South Carolina previously funded its schools “opaque,” “convoluted,” and “fractured.”
Along with expanding background checks for younger potential gun buyers, incentivizing states to establish red-flag laws, and putting more money toward mental health resources, the law closes the “boyfriend loophole” at the federal level.
Many abortion rights activists said that much of their anger was directed towards the nation’s highest court, while quite a bit of it was reserved for Governor Henry McMaster and the legislature.
A state Democratic lawmaker hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott in November is responding to a recording of a phone call released just before Tuesday’s primary runoff.
A federal judge has lifted a block on South Carolina’s so-called “fetal heartbeat bill” in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
The South Carolina General Assembly is returning to Columbia on Tuesday to consider nearly $53 million in local projects that Gov. Henry McMaster wants out of the $13.8 billion state budget.
The US Supreme Court’s ruling Friday to strip the constitutionally guaranteed right to access abortions nationwide opens the door for state legislatures to impose tighter restrictions and even total bans on the procedure, with South Carolina’s among them.
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday after protests were filed in the election for the Democratic nominee for South Carolina State House District 25, which is set to go to a runoff vote.
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster called South Carolina’s upcoming state budget “the most transparent and accountable budget in modern times” while renewing his call for more openness into how public dollars are spent.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says he supports a new bill released Tuesday that could stand as Congress’s response to mass shootings in Texas and New York that shook the nation.
Attorney General Alan Wilson and 18 other attorneys general sent a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland Tuesday, asking him to investigate alleged violence against anti-abortion organizations.
