4 SC attorneys to lead Trumpâs impeachment defense
4 SC attorneys to lead Trumpâs impeachment defense By Adam Mintzer | January 29, 2021 at 8:06 PM EST - Updated January 30 at 10:51 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Four South Carolina attorneys will be representing former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial.
Prominent Republican attorney Butch Bowers will lead the team, according to reports. He has experience representing the South Carolina Republican Party and former Govs. Nikki Haley and Mark Sanford.
He also has brought on former acting U.S. Attorney General Johnny Gasser, criminal defense attorney Greg Harris, and former assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Barbier.
More than 150 businesses oppose Montana’s anti-transgender bills
Measures seek to bar trans athletes from competition and deny transition-related care to minors
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More than 150 business leaders across Montana have signed onto a letter asking lawmakers to oppose two bills targeting the transgender community.
Both bills have been introduced by State Rep. John Fuller (R-Kalispell). One bill seeks to bar transgender athletes from competing in sports other than those designated for the gender that matches a person’s assigned sex at birth.
The other would seek to ban minors even those that have a doctor’s recommendation and the permission of their parents from accessing gender-affirming medical care that aids or assists in a gender transition.
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Ahead of a hearing on a pair of anti-trans bills in Montana, over 150 businesses signed onto a letter opposing the legislation.
In a Thursday letter coordinated by the ACLU of Montana, local and national businesses claim that a pair of proposed bills, House Bills 112 and 113, would âharm transgender youth, their families, their healthcare providers, and their communities,â in addition to discouraging people from living or working in Montana âdue to discriminatory and outdated laws.â
âHB 112 and HB 113, supported by anti-equality legislators, single out young members of our thriving communities simply for who they are and are deeply damaging to our state,â the businesses write.
Former South Carolina U.S. Attorney Pete Strom says the federal law is broad and allows people to be charged for crimes particularly in conspiracies that begin in one place and end in another.