Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Implementing South Carolina's new Voter ID law before November elections looks like a long shot.
A new South Carolina Voter ID law looks increasingly like a long shot to affect the November general election. The law, praised by S.C. Republicans as one of the top new pieces of legislation in the 2012 State House, was shot down by the justice department again on Monday. And on Tuesday, a lawsuit filed by South Carolina against the U.S. government received a new timetable. The Associated Press reported today that on Tuesday the judges considering the case had reschedule oral arguments for the end of August. Gov. Nikki Haley, a strong supporter of the new law, took to Facebook Tuesday and vowed to keep fighting: "We won't let this go." Assistant U.S. Attoney General Thomas Perez again shot down the law under the voting rights act on …
Monday, July 2, 2012
On Friday U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez responded to South Carolina's request it reconsider an objection to the state's Voter ID law
It looks like South Carolina's Voter ID law will get a day in court after Assistant U.S. Attoney General Thomas Perez again shot down the law under the voting rights act on Friday. In a letter dated June 29, Perez responded to South Carolina's request that the Justice Department reconsider its objection to the law based on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Perez maintained that expert opinion on the law as passed makes a persuasive case that minority groups will be disproportionately affected by the new law, which runs affowl of the Voting Rights Act. "We have reconsidered our earlier determination in this matter based on the information and arguments you have advanced in support of your request, along with the other information in our files and…
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A North Charleston company president faces federal charges of illegally transporting goods to Iran.
A North Charleston company president could face 20 years in federal prison if charges of illegally exporting goods to Iran prove true. Markos Baghdasarian, the president of Delfin Group USA, was arrested May 19 at the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, just prior to boarding an international flight to the United Arab Emirates. Baghdasarian was charged by criminal complaint, issued in the District of South Carolina, with exporting goods from the United States to Iran without the required U.S. Department of the Treasury licenses and with making false statements on official government documents. The Department of Justice is pursuing the case. Baghdasarian made his first appearance before a magistrate judge in the Northern District …
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Rejected by the U.S. Department of Justice, the state's suit argues its controversial law is not discriminatory.
Following through on his threat last month, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson on Tuesday filed suit against the U.S. Justice Department in a bid to overturn the department's December decision to prohibit several controversial provisions of the state's Voter I.D. law from taking effect. "The DOJ has refused to allow South Carolina to enact its Voter I.D. law, claiming it does not adequately protect voters from discrimination, per the 1965 Voting Rights Act," Wilson said in a release. "However, very similar laws have been upheld by the United States Supreme Court (in the case of Indiana), and even pre-cleared by the DOJ itself (in the case of Georgia)." The state's Voter I.D. law was passed in 2011, and requires voters to show photo …
samuel smith
9:07 pm on Saturday, July 14, 2012
Nikki Haley is as phony as Jim DeMint and Joe Wilson. She is for "right to work" but then she protects Henry McMaster and Rick Quinn when these two crooks used the shield of SC to attack me using their manufactured lies and RAPED me and revoked my securities license as if they had any basis to do so. Maybe she will soon go to Argentina and hopefully will never make it back more ›