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South Carolina judge temporarily blocks new six-week abortion ban

JURIST

A South Carolina state judge Friday temporarily blocked a newly-signed abortion ban that went into effect Thursday after being signed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. The group asked that a South Carolina court in Richland County temporarily block the ban’s enforcement.

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South Carolina Legislators Move to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Information

JonathanTurley

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. In my view, the law violates the First Amendment and should be scuttled by the legislature. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide.

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University of South Carolina Drops Plans To Exclude Whites from Special Academic Program

JonathanTurley

The University of South Carolina was hit with a Title VI complaint after it attempted to create a special academic program that expressly excluded whites from participation. It took a formal complaint to get the public school to agree to drop racial exclusions.

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Supreme Court Sides With Arizona Death Row Inmate

Constitutional Law Reporter

South Carolina , 512 U.S. In Simmons , the Supreme Court held that where a defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, and state law prohibits his release on parole, due process requires that the sentencing jury be informed that the defendant is parole ineligible. Cruz subsequently appealed to the U.S.

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“Reimagining” History: Archives Racism Task Force Finds Rotunda Triggering

JonathanTurley

It describes the role of Black women in the Civil War, ‘the most famous being Harriet Tubman, who scouted for the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers.’”. The only sentence in which she appears notably lacks the reverence found in the document about Jefferson.

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Racial Gerrymandering Takes Center Stage as Court Considers Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

The issues before the Court included choice-of-law clauses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s whistleblower protection, and racial gerrymandering. 310 (1955), the Supreme Court established that “maritime contracts are governed by federal admiralty law when there is an established federal rule, but absent such a rule, state law applies.”

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The Argument in Carson v. Makin Unexpectedly Turns To Critical Race Theory

JonathanTurley

The exchange occurred as Taub was being questioned on the meaning of “sectarian” under the law. Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation.