News From Around the South, 7/14 to 7/21
SOUTH CAROLINA: John C. Calhoun statue to be re-erected as Charleston settles lawsuit The toppled statue of John C. Calhoun will soon change hands from city storage to a group with plans to display it again, five years after its removal. Charleston has reached a...
No Due Process at Gitmo
Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in...
See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Triumphs
Tubman’s 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved laborers, is now the subject of an exhibition in Charleston On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of...
The Justice Department Whistleblower
“If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone,” Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department lawyer who has filed a whistleblower complaint...Obiter Dicta
Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods: “This is the ultimate cold case” The Battle of Camden is mentioned in history books and Read More