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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. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide. The free speech concerns are even greater with regard to the South Carolina law.

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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. Thus, the Court ultimately concluded that because the Arizona Supreme Court’s interpretation is so novel and unforeseeable, it could not constitute an adequate state procedural ground for the challenged decision. Supreme Court sided with John Montenegro Cruz, a death row inmate in Arizona.

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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

South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP : The redistricting suit challenges a South Carolina’s congressional map drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The post Racial Gerrymandering Takes Center Stage as Court Considers Three Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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

JonathanTurley

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. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.