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The South Carolina Senate has given key approval to a bill that would change the way judges are brought up for election before the General Assembly.
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After months of just talking among themselves, lawmakers in South Carolina are finally debating making changes in how the General Assembly chooses judges. Senators on Thursday tool up a bill altering the procedure for picking who sits on the bench.
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Dozens of open judgeships in South Carolina will go unfilled indefinitely amid an unresolved debate over the state’s selection process.
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Will the S.C. Legislature change the way most judges are vetted and elected in South Carolina? A debate is raging in the Statehouse over how much influence legislators should have in who becomes a state judge.
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Gov. Henry McMaster is requiring candidates nominated to be lower-level judges in South Carolina to submit the same kind of financial and background information as other statewide appointments.
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The new all-male S.C. Supreme Court has upheld the state's six-week abortion ban roughly eight months after ruling a previous and similar ban unconstitutional.
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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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South Carolina Supreme Court associate Justice Kaye Hearn has been elected to another six-year term. Hearn was one of more than three dozen judges put on the bench by the General Assembly on Wednesday. There were no contested races, but in several races at least a few House members and occasionally a few senators voted against the only candidate. Hearn, who became just the second woman ever on the state Supreme Court in 2010, won her latest term on a 122-13 vote. Lawmakers also voted for seats on the state Court of Appeals, Circuit Court and Family Court.