Jury Nullification
Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it’s called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line is that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to...
Old granite fountains for horses, dogs and other thirsty four-leggers still stand across S.C.
GEORGETOWN — Before Paige Sawyer begins one of his walking tours, the self-described “seventh-generation South Carolina redneck” tells his customers to meet him at the fountain. By that he means the big, brown polished granite bowl that sits atop a base and...
From All Directions: America’s Become a Place For Hate
“You know,” the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, “I’ve spent my life separating the right from the kooks.” The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely...News From Around the South, 8/25 to 9/1
SOUTH CAROLINA: A Charleston museum debuts SC-centric Revolutionary War exhibit CHARLESTON — A new Revolutionary War exhibit in the Holy City is one of several museum displays anticipated to go live this year ahead of the American conflict’s 250th anniversary....
The States and the Presidency
“It is (my) intention to … demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States;...Obiter Dicta
The rush to exonerate Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart Read More
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GEORGIA — National civil rights museum expanding. Unlike Smithsonian, Trump has no immediate sway over its content A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the Read More