Constitutional Law Litigating South Carolina 
JURIST
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCDPR) challenging a lower court ruling that found the state had waived sovereign immunity by participating in a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google.
JonathanTurley
JULY 24, 2022
The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide. The free speech concerns are even greater with regard to the South Carolina law.
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JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 5, 2021
By ignoring those countervailing principles, the Democrats are creating a dangerous blind spot in these proposed laws. The resulting litigation could leave core election rules in doubt heading into the next round of elections.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2024
It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
If the litigation can create serious doubts over the authentication or tabulation of ballots, the Trump campaign could force fights on the floors of these state legislatures. This is when things move into some uncertain constitutional physics. The problem was that rampant fraud was alleged in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina.
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