SC Politics

In South Carolina, there are only days left in the legislative calendar this year. WFAE's Marshall Terry spoke with South Carolina Public Radio reporter Maayan Schechter about what's going on at the statehouse in Columbia.

WIS TV reports the first major debate at the S.C. state House this year is set to focus on school funding, as senators will take up a bill to reinstate South Carolina’s private-school voucher program after the state Supreme Court ruled last summer that their plan to give certain families public dollars to spend on private-school tuition was unconstitutional.

The South Carolina measure — cosponsored by several members of the Legislature's newly formed Freedom Caucus — would bar curricula from including or promoting certain concepts around race and other demographics.

Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two of his highest-profile South Carolina supporters at the first public campaign event of his 2024 White House bid later this month in the early-voting state, AP reports.

“I look forward to the opportunity to prove to my family and my constituents that I have learned from this mistake,” said South Carolina state Sen. Tom Davis. He has served in the state Senate since 2009 and is chair of the Senate Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee.

A South Carolina House committee has approved set of proposed maps that would shape the state’s House districts for the next decade. The House Judiciary Committee's Tuesday vote advances the maps redrawing 124 districts to the full chamber.

U.S. Rep. Tom Rice says that he hopes his vote this year to impeach President Donald Trump won’t be enough to overshadow his other accomplishments as he seeks a sixth term. The Myrtle Beach Republican told The Associated Press this week that he stands by his vote in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.

A proposed map of new South Carolina Senate lines based on 2020 U.S. Census data moves one district from Richland County to faster growing Charleston County. But the map appears to keep most other senators in their current districts.

Legislative redistricting is underway in South Carolina. Lawmakers are drawing maps based on the 2020 census that will decide boundaries for representation in the U.S. House and the State House in Columbia. Winthrop University political scientist Scott Huffmon walks us through the process — and the lawsuits that have already been filed.

The South Carolina House will take online testimony this week about redistricting as it appears the General Assembly won’t take up the new maps for several months.