Comments on: FITSNews Exclusive – “Supreme Courting”

By: SC Supreme Court Faces Multiple Investigations | FITSNews

SC Supreme Court Faces Multiple Investigations | FITSNews — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:01:47 +0000

[...] course the biggest scandal faced by the Court recently – well, aside from the way its judges are selected – was a controversial decision last November to toss out an entire section of the state bar exam in [...]

By: FITSNews Exclusive - Leatherman Digging For Supreme Court Votes | FITSNews For Now

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:40:54 +0000

[...] of improper vote-trading were rampant during last year’s legislative election of Democrat Donald Beatty to the State [...]

By: More Beattygate Shiestering « FITSNews For Now

More Beattygate Shiestering « FITSNews For Now — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:42:37 +0000

[...] October 24, 2007 – We’ve known that Dorchester County was a political cesspool ever since the Beattygate scandal rocked South Carolina politics earlier this year, but the corrupt little Lowcountry clique of State [...]

By: Rats At The State House? « FITSNews For Now

Rats At The State House? « FITSNews For Now — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:36:24 +0000

[...] the same day that the President of the S.C. Bar warned legislators about the illegality of vote trading in the current S.C. Supreme Court election, FITSNews has been informed that at least one State [...]

By: Beattygate Just Won't Quit « FITSNews For Now

Beattygate Just Won't Quit « FITSNews For Now — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:44 +0000

[...] could come down to a single vote. Critics allege that the process leading up to this point has been rife with scandal, replete with favor-trading and has even included some some misdirected venom aimed at [...]

By: For the Record « the gravy train

For the Record « the gravy train — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:46:09 +0000

[...] could not say.Â That is censorship.Â They then began talking about Will Folkâ€™s FITSnews post on Beattygate.Â Are the members of the General Assembly afraid that a blogger has exposed the way that judicial [...]

By: Beattygate Expands « FITSNews For Now

Beattygate Expands « FITSNews For Now — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:26:25 +0000

[...] – May 17, 2007 – Ever since we published our original article a little over two weeks ago about potential illegalities in the S.C. Supreme Court election [...]

By: yep

yep — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:11:52 +0000

And, to add to Disenchanted’s comment, people who work with Williams say that he’s pretty much clueless about anything other than family law. So, he has exhibited a personal motive to imprudently uphold family court judges (he empathizes with them because he used to be one), and in the areas where he has no motive, he has very little experience. EEsshh…. I’m a conservative but I’m not stupid. I think the G’ville News recent article helps, along with this blog post, prompts people to take their eyes off the ball. No question there is politics involved in every aspect of this, but isn’t the real quest to find the most qualified person? Williams saw an opportunity that no one else saw– to run as the conservative– and I guess we can’t blame him for that but that doesn’t mean he should be elected.

By: Disenchanted

Disenchanted — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:24:24 +0000

I don’t feel that Williams is the lesser of two evils. It would be a terrible injustice to the children and families of this State for him to be on the Supreme Court, bad enough that he is on the Court of Appeals.
Williams as a former Family Court Judge has demonstrated a bias to support and defend the decisions of Family Court Judges, even when those decisions are clearly “an abuse of discretion”, to the detriment of the lives of the children and families affected by his “opinions”.
In my opinion, Williams should not be on the bench at all.

By: Saturday Trade Talk « FITSNews For Now

Saturday Trade Talk « FITSNews For Now — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:16:56 +0000

[...] News was busy this morning picking up the pieces from the recent smart bomb we dropped on South Carolina’s Supreme Court race, we spent our Saturday morning mortgaging the future of our fantasy baseball squad on Florida [...]