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Instead of continuing to tinker with a death penalty system that is broken beyond repair, South Carolina legislators should repeal the death penalty.

Civil asset forfeiture allows the government to take and keep your property without even charging you with a crime.

Tomorrow a subcommittee of the SC Senate Medical Affairs Committee will consider a bill (S.1) that would prohibit abortions after any embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which is usually at six weeks. Make no mistake, this bill is intended to ban abortion in South Carolina.

From colonization and slavery, though modern racist and exploitative policies that include regressive taxation, redlining, and voter suppression, America has systematically exploited and denied the basic human rights of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. White supremacy is America's foundation.

El programa 287(g) fomenta el establecimiento generalizado de perfiles raciales, desperdicia millones de dólares fiscales del condado de Charleston y debilita las relaciones entre la policia y las comunidades a las que sirven.

The 287(g) program encourages widespread racial profiling, wastes millions of Charleston County taxdollars, and undermines relationships between local law enforcement and the communities they serve.

2020 magnified our failures as a society. Law enforcement continued to murder Black people. Workers were forced to choose between their health and a paycheck. The integrity of our elections was systematically attacked. The list goes on.

Following our lawsuit, in September the South Carolina legislature passed legislation to allow all voters to cast absentee ballots because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

We are thrilled that the South Carolina Legislature has ended this cruel and inhumane practice, greatly increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes for incarcerated parents and their newborn children.