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South Carolina
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 38 stories to South Carolina since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from South Carolina.
35days until Election Day, Nov. 3In South Carolina
10 storiesProPublica reveals FBI agents sought a pay-to-play probe of Maine Sen. Collins' dealings with a defense contractor donor before Trump's purge killed it.
Collins asked to thank shell-company donor
U.S. measles cases hit 2,295, the most since 1991, passing last year's record total with more than five months left in the year.
90% of infections among unvaccinated people
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy, charged with killing her three children, after a mistrial with jurors 11-1 toward an insanity acquittal.
Wants a "warning to women everywhere"
South Carolina judge refuses to halt House Republicans' Clyburn-targeted redistricting, ruling state Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to legislative rule changes.
Rules meeting noticed eight minutes ahead
South Carolina Senate rejects Trump-backed redistricting push to eliminate Clyburn's seat, hours after Missouri Supreme Court upholds new Republican map.
5 SC Republicans broke ranks
Alabama and Tennessee governors call special sessions to redraw congressional maps two days after SCOTUS Voting Rights Act ruling.
Louisiana Dems sue over suspended primary
South Carolina's 200-day measles outbreak ends at 997 cases, the largest US outbreak in 35 years, with most victims unvaccinated children.
State senators rejected stricter mandate mid-outbreak
CDC deploys disease detectives to South Carolina's largest measles outbreak in 30 years, 22 weeks in, as the agency operates with 25% fewer staff.
Largest measles outbreak in 30 years
Six conservation groups sue Interior Secretary Burgum over removal of hundreds of exhibits on slavery, climate change, and Indigenous history from national parks.
Thousands more displays flagged for review
National Guard deployment in Washington extended through end of 2026, with 2,400 troops from Republican-led states patrolling Metro stations and the National Mall while armed with rifles and pistols.
Mission includes trash, landscaping, grafitti
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Education Department formally repeals Biden's 2024 Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students, skipping public comment, after courts struck it down in 2025.
Not enforced for 18 months
Trump asks Supreme Court to let federal prisons end most gender-affirming care for transgender inmates, saying prison officials needn't show evidence of security risks.
Judge found policy reverse-engineered from order
Fighting back
3 storiesProtesters fill Tennessee and Alabama capitols as three Southern states advance maps targeting Black-majority districts a week after Louisiana ruling.
One week after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act
South Carolina Senate kills Trump-pushed redistricting for the year as Republicans flip votes hours after early voting begins.
Sen. Davis cites precinct map errors
Three-star admiral Nancy Lacore, removed by Hegseth without cause after 35-year Navy career, announces run for Congress in South Carolina.
District flipped blue in 2018
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