Friends,
No state has faced opposition from its RINO Republican leadership quite like the South Carolina Freedom Caucus (SCFC).
Less than a month into the 2024 session, the attacks have gotten even worse than last year.
The Palmetto State has a “Republican” supermajority in their legislature (88R-36D House, 30R-15D Senate), but an analysis of their voting records shows only Republicans in Hawaii have more liberal voting records.
In last year’s session, GOP leadership kicked the entire Freedom Caucus out of the SC House Republican Caucus. Why? They refused to sign a pledge to essentially never criticize their fellow Republicans.
This year, they’re trying to muzzle the SCFC by shutting down debate.
Led by RINO GOP Majority Leader Davey Hiott, South Carolina Republicans are proposing a new rules package for the House this year that limits the amount of amendments that members can bring forward on any given bill.
Not only that, but it gives the Majority and Minority Leaders sole authority to choose which amendments actually get voted on. So not only are they trying to shut conservatives out of the legislative process entirely, they want to give Democrats the procedural power to help them do it! The same Democrats who technically have zero leverage to have any control in the process.
To put it as simply as we can - RINO Republicans are teaming up with the Democrats to shut down the SC Freedom Caucus by preventing them from offering conservative amendments to their big government bills. In a state where Trump beat Biden by double-digits, this is nothing short of INSANE.
Thankfully, after the SC Freedom Caucus raised the alarm on social media and to the grassroots, leadership was forced to delay a vote on the rules package. But the RINOs will keep trying. This fight isn’t over.
Read more about it in this Fox News piece.
Believe it or not, the RINOs in South Carolina recently did something else that is equally bad, if not worse!
There is currently a judicial vacancy in South Carolina’s 5th Circuit Court, and the legislature is in charge of approving nominations for the bench.
Now given the fact that SC has a “Republican supermajority,” you’d think their choice would be a rock-ribbed conservative in the mold of Justice Clarence Thomas.
But you couldn’t be more wrong.
The leading candidate that RINO Republicans want to put on the bench is a man named James Smith. He was the state’s Democrat nominee for Governor in 2018 and the former Democrat Minority Leader in the State House. He’s pro-Biden, pro-abortion, and pro-Medicaid expansion.
Yet despite this, Smith has the support from a majority of Republicans in the House for this judicial seat. Why? Because he’s part of the “Good Ol’ Boys” network. If confirmed, can you imagine the kind of damage he could inflict by “legislating from the bench”?
The SC Freedom Caucus will fight to ensure that his candidacy is terminated. If they can’t kill the nomination ahead of time, we anticipate the vote for his confirmation will be held in early February.
“This judicial race highlights exactly why South Carolina desperately needs both a reformed judicial system and more reform-minded, true conservatives in the South Carolina General Assembly,” said State Freedom Caucus Network’s SC Director Evan Newman.
Read more in the Daily Signal.
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Keep fighting,
Andy Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
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