South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — The candidate field is set for South Carolina’s 2022 elections, which feature a competitive Democratic gubernatorial primary, a wide-open education superintendent race and a pair of intraparty congressional battles featuring Republican incumbents fending off challengers backed by ...

Tagged with: election

COLUMBIA (AP) — A bipartisan group of two dozen former South Carolina federal prosecutors are offering their “wholehearted support” for Judge Michelle Childs’ nomination to an appellate court, an elevation that’s on hold due to Childs’ consideration for an even ...

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When she hired Michelle Childs to practice employment law in the early 1990s right out of school, Vickie Eslinger says she knew there was something different about the freshly minted South Carolina attorney. “I immediately identified ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — At President Joe Biden’s lowest moment in the 2020 campaign, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn came to him with a suggestion: He should pledge to put the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. After some cajoling, ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Appellate arguments over a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s abortion law have been pushed into the new year. Oral arguments in the case had originally been planned for next month, but the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Daniel Rickenmann, a longtime city council member backed by Republicans, has been chosen as the mayor of South Carolina’s capital city, a victory that came despite heavy-hitting Democratic endorsements for his opponent. Rickenmann won Tuesday’s runoff election ...

Tagged with: Mayor of Columbia

COLUMBIA (AP) — State Sen. Hugh Leatherman, South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker, died Friday at the age of 90. Leatherman died at his home in Florence, his office said, after being diagnosed with an inoperable cancer. As ...

Tagged with: state senate

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As port logjams across the country continue to constrain the U.S. supply chain, the union that represents dockworkers at South Carolina’s ports tells The Associated Press it is calling on the Biden administration for help in ...

Tagged with: port of Charleston

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he ...

Tagged with: Charleston church shooting

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina can’t lawfully require students and staff to wear face coverings on campus this fall, despite increasing cases of coronavirus, thanks to recent legislative action, according to the state’s top prosecutor. Last ...

Tagged with: coronavirus