Misanin v. Wilson
In May 2024, South Carolina lawmakers passed House Bill 4624, which prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth as well as many transgender adults. They passed the bill...
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In May 2024, South Carolina lawmakers passed House Bill 4624, which prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth as well as many transgender adults. They passed the bill...
Every 10 years, South Carolina state lawmakers are tasked with redrawing the lines for congressional districts based on census data. Following the 2020 Census, lawmakers violated the South Carolina...
The South Carolina Department of Corrections enforces a total ban on news media interviews with incarcerated people. We are suing to challenge that policy, seeking emergency relief to allow the ACLU of...
Paul Osmundson, a local news editor for The State newspaper in Columbia, submitted a request in May 2021 for public records from School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties. Two months...