First slavery. (SC leads the nation)

Then the Nullification debates.  (SC senators in the lead, there)

Then Secession and Civil War. (Again)

Then Jim Crow. (Again)

Then Strom Thurmond. (And let's not forget all of his misdeeds...).

Running through all this, the cry of "state's rights".

Then, fer instance, the whole Rove whisper campaign about McCain's black bastard baby (really, a Bangladshi adoptee).  And cf. under "Thurmond, Strom and the maid".

Then the Charleston Brig and Padilla.

The complaisant Fourth Circuit.

Then Lindsay "Huckleberry" Graham - author/midwife of the Torture Act.  And a former Judge.  And a creator of bogus legislative history, trying to influence Hamdan.

And, now, DeMint blocking the intel bill because he's concerned it might make the Preznit have to tell about his secret CIA torture prisons (which have supposedly been closed).

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(N.B. to keep it on politics and crime, I've not mentioned stuff like Bob Jones U, for example.