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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for October 12, 2024: host Gavin Jackson’s full conversation with state Attorney General Alan Wilson from This Week in South Carolina; Gavin also speaks with Valerie Bauerlein, author of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty; and more!
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During a press conference on Tues. morning, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson praised the filing of multiple bills targeting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and has urged a quick passing.
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"Those backlogs are jeopardizing the safety of the citizens of South Carolina," U.S. House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, said Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.
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Republican S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson met with lawmakers in July to get their response to removing their membership from the Judicial Merit Selection Commission.
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July 12, 2023 - A recap of President Biden's recent visit to the Palmetto State to tout his economic agenda; a look at who's leading the fundraising race in the 2024 race; remarks from SC Attorney General Alan Wilson on his ideas for judicial reform; and more.
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Lawyers for the city of Charleston say a marker honoring a Confederate general is not protected from removal under South Carolina law because of the way the 2000 act was written. The attorney say the Heritage Act only protects monuments to 10 wars specifically mentioned. They wrote "Robert E. Lee is not a war" in a letter to state Attorney General Alan Wilson, who demanded the city put the maker back in front of the Charleston Charter School for Math and Science. The city removed the marker last summer after the school's principal said it was a pain point for the majority-minority school which was also the first in Charleston to integrate.
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The family of a mentally ill Black man who died after South Carolina jail employees repeatedly stunned him and then kneeled on his back until he stopped breathing is still seeking criminal charges one year later. Relatives for Jamal Sutherland want South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson to prosecute the Charleston County guards who restrained the 31-year-old shortly before his death. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson had said last year that she couldn't prove the guards intended to kill Sutherland.
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South Carolina officials who have been sued over a law banning school districts from issuing face mask mandates say that they should be removed from pending litigation. That's the argument made in recent court filings from Gov. Henry McMaster, Attorney General Alan Wilson and others being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU is suing on behalf of disability rights groups and parents of South Carolina children with disabilities. The plaintiffs are challenging a budget measure passed this summer that prevents South Carolina districts from using any state funding to require masks in schools.