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23 Jun 2017, 3:14 pm by Lovechilde
Yes, the Democrats just lost two special elections for House seats -- in Georgia and South Carolina. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 4:10 pm by INFORRM
Robinson has written a column for the South Carolina Press Association about ‘legal responses to attacks against the media. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 2:28 pm by Amy Howe and Mark Walsh
Justice Gorsuch seated in John Marshall’s chair at his investiture attended by the President and First Lady; Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein at lectern with scroll (Art Lien) Most of the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are in attendance, including Orrin Hatch of Utah, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas, Jeff Flake of Arizona (who had given his dramatic eyewitness account yesterday of the baseball field shootings),… [read post]
9 Jun 2017, 6:28 am by Jim Sedor
Commission Director James Klahr issued an advisory opinion that political party committees in the House and Senate are not bound to the $25,000 aggregate limit in accordance with the ruling. [read post]
4 Jun 2017, 1:06 pm by Calvin TerBeek
With South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, Ervin weakened the enforceability of the Civil Rights Act before voting against it. [read post]
26 May 2017, 6:34 am by Jonathan Spontarelli
The Republican Party of Louisiana had argued a provision of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) violates its free speech rights. [read post]
22 May 2017, 2:55 pm by Lyle Denniston
On Monday, the court used the same swift technique to turn away a new constitutional challenge to the ban, this time by the Republican Party of Louisiana. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
              The president’s ignorance is rivaled only by that displayed by his extraordinary Cabinet appointments: Ben Carson (who recently described slaves as “immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships” with a “dream” of “prosperity”), Betsy Devos (who thinks that historically black colleges, which were established at a time when no white institutions of higher education in the… [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
” After the insurgent relief seekers scored victories in gubernatorial and legislative contests in the spring of 1787, Madison told James Monroe that the Massachusetts election had “shifted the legislative power into the hands of the discontented party, and it is much feared that a grievous abuse of it will characterize the new administration. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 2:30 am by Michael Kazin
In the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader—Claude Kitchin from North Carolina—rallied dozens of his fellow Democrats to arrest the drift toward war and, at times, to oppose the president and leader of their own party. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:10 am by Stephen Wermiel
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina has the record for talking on the Senate floor: Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in order prevent a vote on a 1957 civil rights law. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
All states, it turns out, have regressive tax systems, but red states (including Mulvaney’s home state of South Carolina) are especially lacking in compassion for their least fortunate citizens. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In his inaugural address, Lincoln skirted the constitutional issue, and relied instead on a legal argument: if the Union was merely a contractual arrangement among the states, the South could not unilaterally rescind that contract by secession—it required the assent of the other parties to the contract. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 8:12 am by Rishabh Bhandari
According to The Hill, two leading Republican lawmakers, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, have called on Trump to disclose evidence of his accusations. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
His attacker was Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 8:36 am by Andrew Kent
Another Senate investigation of Russia-Trump connections is being led by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the chair and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 8:22 am
Pinckney said, South Carolina could never receive the plan, “if it prohibits the slavetrade. [read post]