Thursday, March 28, 2024

S.C. House Approves Measure to Debate Removal of Confederate Flag

Kirt Moody, of Columbia, S.C. holds a sign during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, in Columbia, S.C.
Kirt Moody, of Columbia, S.C. holds a sign during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. The shooting deaths of nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C, have reignited calls for the Confederate flag flying on the grounds of the Statehouse in Columbia to come down. Rallies are being held, and politicians have joined the chorus of voices calling for its removal — an opinion that has carried political risks in the state in the past. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

*The South Carolina House has approved a measure that allows them to consider removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.

The lawmakers were in a special session Tuesday to pass a state budget, but they took the extraordinary step to allow the flag debate after nine black church members were killed last week in Charleston.

Legislators will pass a state budget and when they return to consider Gov. Nikki Haley’s budget vetoes, they will take up the flag issue. That could be in a couple of weeks.

The House held a moment of silence for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator, who was killed in the attack.

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