South Carolina presidential electors to meet at State House
South Carolina’s nine electors are set to meet Monday to cast their ballots for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
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Supreme Court rejects Republican push to overturn Biden victory
HOUSTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court. The court’s order today was its second this week rebuffing Republican requests that it get involved in the 2020 election…
AP: Trump loses Wisconsin lawsuit in latest legal defeat
President Donald Trump has lost a Wisconsin lawsuit seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state.
Congress stuck as McConnell torpedoes emerging COVID-19 deal
Current proposal does not have the stimulus payment millions of Americans received earlier in the year
WASHINGTON (AP) – An emerging $900 billion COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers all but collapsed Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won’t support a key compromise. It includes a slimmed-down liability shield for companies from virus-related lawsuits in exchange for adding $160 billion for cash-strapped states and cities that Democrats want. The hardened…
US carries out rare execution during presidential transition
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) – The Trump administration has carried out its ninth execution of the year and the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years. Federal prison officials in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Thursday executed a Texas street-gang member for his role in the 1999 slayings of an Iowa religious couple. The case of 40-year-old Brandon Bernard…
SC supreme court rejects Governor’s ‘Federal Cares Act’ spending plan, again
Governor McMaster says he is 'disappointed' with the unanimous decision
Columbia, SC (WOLO) — The South Carolina Supreme Court once again rejected Governor McMaster’s plan to spend $32 million in federal coronavirus relief on tuition grants for private schools. The justices ruled unanimously that his decision to use Federal Cares Act money that way in South Carolina is unconstitutional. During a press conference Wednesday the Governor expressed disappointment in the…
High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden’s Pennsylvania win
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on…
Nikki Haley says her sister-in-law died of COVID-19
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley says her sister-in-law has died after contracting the coronavirus. Haley tweeted Tuesday evening that Rhonda Lee Nelson, sister of her husband Michael, “passed the day before Thanksgiving of Covid.” An online obituary says Nelson was 53 years old, lived in West Milton, Ohio, and died November 25. She was remembered as…
S.C. Congressman Jim Clyburn tapped to head Biden Inaugural Committee
President -Elect Joe Biden picks South Carolina Congressman Clyburn to head up committee in charge of inaugural events in January
Source: @WhipClyburn – Twitter Washington, DC. (Associated Press) — WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Joe Biden is naming some of his most prominent allies to be co-chairs for his upcoming Inauguration. Biden named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) as the chairman for the January 20th, swearing-in. Clyburn, The House Majority Whip, was arguably Biden’s most important proponent: it was Clyburn’s endorsement that…
Trump administration suspends student federal loan payments through January
(AP) – The Trump administration is suspending all federal student loan payments through the end of January and keeping interest rates at 0%, extending a moratorium that started early in the pandemic but was set to expire at the end of this month. By extending payments by one month, the administration is effectively leaving it to the Biden administration or…
