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A long-anticipated legal challenge, filed Thursday, argues that South Carolina’s plan to subsidize the education of qualified private school students runs afoul of the state Constitution.

COLUMBIA - Nine of South Carolinas 16 elected prosecutors are asking to remove all legislators who are lawyers from a committee that decides which judicial candidates are put before the General Assembly for election. All six of the lawmakers on …

On Monday, nine solicitors signed a letter addressed to House Speaker Murrell Smith and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Luke Rankin.

Nine elected solicitors called for a prominent lawyer-legislator to be booted from the group that vets judges. The S.C. Black caucus fired back, saying the solicitors are “overreaching” in an act of “hypocrisy at best—and thinly veiled racism at worst.”

Nine elected solicitors are asking top lawmakers to remove a legislator, who is a well-known attorney, from the influential Judicial Merit Selection Comission, claiming a “pattern” of questionable circumstances.

Nine chief prosecutors from across South Carolina are calling for the immediate removal of state lawmakers from the panel that screens and evaluates judges, saying recent scandals have eroded public

Nine chief prosecutors from across South Carolina are calling for the immediate removal of state lawmakers from the panel that screens and evaluates judges, saying recent scandals have eroded public

Gov. Henry McMaster says he is requiring applicants for magistrate judge positions to disclose a greater amount of information about their qualifications in response to the growing concern about the conduct of judges across the state.

Some are warning that the state needs to take steps to shore up its energy capabilities as population and businesses grow in the Palmetto State — but are those warnings overblown?