This is going to be a short post because I'm currently working on building a legislative tracker for South Carolina that will help people track pieces of legislation in the SC General Assembly. You can already access one component of the tool that I think will be pretty vital for…
Accidental obsession If you've been following me for a bit, you'll know one of the things I've really enjoyed is scraping data out of different government systems. I became obsessed with South Carolina's Supreme Court after they issued a decision striking down Governor McMaster's creation of a private school voucher…
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 Murdaugh, Paul Terry Murdaugh, Gloria…
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…