The South Carolina Senate Judiciary Full Committee is considering more than a dozen bills aimed at cleaning up the judicial selection process in South Carolina.

This hearing comes after an ad hoc committee of state senators and representatives tasked with evaluating the judicial selection process met several times beginning in November 2023 to hear from lawyers, judges, officers, and members of the public to get input on where improvements could be made in the process.

Right now, judges in South Carolina are vetted by a Judicial Merit Selection Committee and then their appointments are voted on by the general assembly. The problem? The general assembly has a significant number of lawyer legislators, meaning that judicial candidates have to rely on the same attorneys who practice in their courts to elect them to the bench every six years.

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