Maayan Schechter
Reporter at WSCI-FM (Charleston, SC)
(My-yahn) | @SCPublicRadio Statehouse reporter | [email protected] | Prev work: @thestate @greenvillenews @aikenstandard | ATL native
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3 days ago |
southcarolinapublicradio.org | Maayan Schechter
Suspended state Rep. RJ May, who outside the Statehouse ran a successful Republican consulting firm, has been assigned a federal public defender as he faces 10 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. In a signed financial affidavit, May informed the court on Tuesday that he had no assets entitled to his name outside of a truck. He had previously retained Columbia attorney Dayne Phillips.
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1 week ago |
southcarolinapublicradio.org | Maayan Schechter
SC Public Radio's Maayan Schechter asks SC Daily Gazette's Skylar Laird about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti that upholds Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors and how that ruling might affect a pending federal court case over South Carolina's ban that also includes adults. MAAYAN SCHECHTER, HOST: It's the season of U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
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2 weeks ago |
southcarolinapublicradio.org | Maayan Schechter
South Carolina Republican lawmaker RJ May has been indicted on 10 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. May, 38, will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Columbia at 10:30 a.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges. House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, is expected to suspend May from office shortly, as required by law.
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2 weeks ago |
southcarolinapublicradio.org | Maayan Schechter
South Carolina Republican lawmaker RJ May was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Lexington County Detention Center, jail records show. May, first elected to represent part of Lexington County in 2020, is a co-founder of the hardline House Freedom Caucus. Booking information for May, 38, did not list charges or a booking photo but did list a hold for "DUSM," or Deputy U.S. Marshal. May's booking information was later removed on the Lexington County jail website.
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2 weeks ago |
southcarolinapublicradio.org | Maayan Schechter
A South Carolina state senator has filed a lawsuit to stop a budget measure from taking effect in July that would raise in-district pay for the state's 170 legislators. State Sen. Wes Climer, a York County Republican, filed the complaint June 6 with another plaintiff, Carol Herring, asking the state Supreme Court to quickly intervene and stop the release of state dollars that would boost lawmakers' pay for in-district expenses to $2,500-a-month, up from $1,000.
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