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South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301 (1966), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach). [1]
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to ...
The termination act provided that all state laws would apply to the tribe as if they were non-Indians. [11] In 1975, the Catawbas incorporated under South Carolina law as a non-profit. [12] By the time of the lawsuit, the town of Rock Hill, South Carolina had developed within the former 144,000-acre tract. [13]
A date for a parole hearing has been set for convicted murderer Susan Smith more than 30 years after her two young sons were killed. On Monday, the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole ...
Jackson v. District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics: 559 U.S. 1301 (2010) Same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia • local referendum process Roberts denied an application for a stay of the D.C. Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act, which legalized same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C. effective March 3 ...
Edwards vs. South Carolina monument, Columbia, SC. Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house.
The No. 1 Gamecocks (4-0) host the Delta Devils (1-4) at Colonial Life Arena on Friday (1 p.m., SEC Network+) after an ugly yet dominant 78-38 win over South Dakota State.
Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill wrote a book detailing the Alex Murdaugh double-homicide trial. Now, she’s facing questions surrounding the ethics of her book.