South Carolina's Supreme Court will soon have no Black justices

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All the justices on South Carolina’s Supreme Court are going to be white for the first time in nearly two decades. Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman was the lone Black candidate for the state Supreme Court seat coming open. The only African American on the high court is Chief Justice Don Beatty.

FILE - The exterior of the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia, S.C. is shown Jan. 18, 2023. For the first time in nearly two decades, all the justices on South Carolina’s Supreme Court are going to be white. COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the first time in nearly two decades, all the justices on South Carolina’s Supreme Court are going to be white.

Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman was the lone Black candidate for the state Supreme Court seat coming open. The only African American on the high court, Chief Justice Don Beatty, has to leave because he has reached the mandatory retirement age of 72.

 

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