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Legislation sponsored by House Speaker Jay Lucas would ask voters in November 2022 whether they want to continue electing the state's K-12 public schools chief or let the governor pick.Â
A few weeks after judicial elections inflamed racial tensions in the Statehouse, a contested race for a spot on the University of South Carolina's board of trustees threatens to exacerbate the issue, as some lawmakers have criticized efforts to oust one of the only Black trustees from his post.
After almost a year of trying, business groups successfully shepherded a bill through the South Carolina Senate on Feb. 25 that would shield them from COVID-19 lawsuits by customers and workers if they follow safety guidelines.
The stakes are prodigious, with control of Congress and the fate of President Joe Biden's legislative agenda in the balance. But at its core, a more foundational principle of American democracy is at play: access to the ballot.
A $1.9 trillion package aimed at helping the country rebuild from the pandemic seemed headed toward House passage Friday, even as Democrats searched for a way to revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.
The Manhattan district attorney's office enforced a subpoena on Trump's accounting firm within hours of the Supreme Court's ruling on Monday and now has the documents in hand, a spokesperson for the office, Danny Frost, said Thursday.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. had been fighting for a year and a half for access to Trump's tax records for a criminal grand jury investigation into his business dealings. The documents are protected by grand jury secrecy rules and are not expected to be made public.
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