SC Heritage Act lawsuit protecting Confederate monuments sparks top Republican fight
SC Heritage Act lawsuit protecting Confederate monuments sparks top Republican fight John Monk, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Dec. 30—COLUMBIA, S.C. — A key part of the 20-year-old South Carolina law that makes it near impossible to take down Confederate and segregation-era monuments is the requirement that it would take a two-thirds vote — a supermajority — by each chamber in the General Assembly to make any changes. But in the latest filing before the state Supreme Court in a lawsuit that challenges the state's Heritage Act, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson s...