On Thursday, the Supreme Court delivered a decision that could be a death knell for Planned Parenthood health centers across the nation. In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court’s conservative supermajority decided that the federal Medicaid Act does not give an individual the right to bring …
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In 1995’s Jumanji, Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce discover a peculiar board game in the attic of their new home. Words appear as they roll the dice: “This will not be an easy mission. Monkeys slow the expedition.” That scene came to life over in South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, …
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The Supreme Court determined on Thursday that South Carolina Republicans did not engage in racial gerrymandering when redrawing the map of the state’s 1st Congressional district, overturning a lower court ruling by the District of South Carolina. In a 6-3 ruling the conservative majority of the court, comprised of Justices …
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“Six weeks is, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time,” the majority held, in an opinion authored by Justice Kaye Hearn. In January, South Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. The 3-2 majority explained that, while the state has the authority to impose …
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The South Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to ban abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy — before most people know they are pregnant — and sent the bill toRepublican Gov. Henry McMaster, who has said he will sign it. The measure was passed by a vote of 27 to 19, …
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South Carolina lawmakers voted late Wednesday to ban abortions past six weeks, passing the state’s House of Representatives 82 to 33 after roughly 24 hours of contentious debate. The bill is an amended version of a six-week ban that was approved by the Senate in February, and will head back …
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If you have a taste for lurid news you probably know that Alex Murdaugh is currently on trial in Walterboro, South Carolina, for the murder of his wife and younger son. It’s the kind of story that makes true-crime mavens drool: a once-prominent, now-disgraced lawyer is charged with bloody heinousness. …
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Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been indicted on murder charges in the 2021 shooting deaths of his wife and son. He has been charged with two counts of murder, and two counts of possessing a firearm during a crime. According to indictments handed down on Thursday from a …
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Donald Trump didn’t even speak for an hour during his rally in Florence, South Carolina, on Saturday night, but he still managed to lay out a sufficiently terrifying vision of what the United States could look like should he run for and win the presidency in 2024, while cycling through …
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