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South Carolina is one of two states where the state legislature elects state court judges, including the justices on the state supreme court. [3] A ten-person committee (composed mostly of state legislators) called the Judicial Merit Selection Commission (JMSC) winnows down the number of candidates to fill a judicial vacancy to three based on candidate qualifications.
What are South Carolina's abortion laws? The Center for Reproductive Rights made a post on Aug. 23, 2023, explaining and condemning the S.C. Supreme Court's decisions on abortion.
The Constitution of the State of South Carolina is the governing document of the U.S. state of South Carolina. It describes the structure and function of the state's government. The current constitution took effect on December 4, 1895. South Carolina has had six other constitutions, which were adopted in 1669, 1776, 1778, 1790, 1865 and 1868. [1]
On November 10, 2021, the South Carolina Supreme Court, basing its reasoning on Obergefell, which held that state same-sex marriage bans are void ab initio, dispensed with briefing and vacated the provision of the Court of Appeals' opinion that same-sex couples could not form common-law marriages prior to November 2014. However, because ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart ...
The Supreme Court allowed the inmates to add arguments that the shield law was too secret by not releasing the potency, purity and stabilization of lethal injection drugs. South Carolina has 32 ...
South Carolina entered it into law on May 25, 2023, despite its similarity to 2021's fetal heartbeat law the state Supreme Court struck down. [28] The law generally banned abortion once there is "cardiac activity, or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart, within the gestational sac". [29]
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 3-2 that a ban on abortions after cardiac activity violates the state constitution's right to privacy. ... The 3-2 decision comes nearly two years after ...