SC judiciary, the legislature, and power

The six-week long "trial of the century"  that ended just over a month ago was presided over by South Carolina at-large circuit court judge Clifton Newman. Newman was appointed to preside over  "all pending and future criminal investigations concerning the deaths of Margaret Kennedy Branstetter

Digging into South Carolina's Campaign Finance Reporting System

Last year, I started to get curious about the system that South Carolina uses to publish campaign finance disclosures. The first thing I noticed was that the system is really irritating to work with.  I wanted a list of all candidates that had filed a report for the elections in