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Curtis Loftis: Don’t’ Call it an Impeachment

Treasurer Curtis Loftis seen through a Senate antechamber window after delivering remarks during the hearing for his removal from office in the South Carolina Senate on April 21, 2025. Gavin Jackson/SCETV
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis seen through a Senate antechamber window after delivering remarks during the hearing for his removal from office in the South Carolina Senate on April 21, 2025. Gavin Jackson/SCETV

This episode of the South Carolina Lede for April 22, 2025, is dedicated to the historic and unprecedented removal from office hearing of Treasurer Curtis Loftis, a statewide constitutional officer, by the state Senate for “willfully neglecting his duties” over the handling of the $1.8 billion discrepancy in state funds. We take you through the machinations of the hearing that took place in the South Carolina Senate on Monday.

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.