Alan Wilson

As head of Alliance Defending Freedom, Michael Farris focuses on diminishing our rights, but he’s also found time to engage in the right’s anti-democracy “Stop the Steal” push.

The state’s law only allowed schools to talk about LGBTQ people in the context of diseases.

Gov. Nikki Haley and Attorney General Alan Wilson oppose a federal directive telling public schools to allow students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent same-sex marriages from beginning in the state on Thursday.

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for same-sex couples to be married in South Carolina beginning this week – at least for now. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, denied the state’s request to block the marriages while it appeals a lower court’s ruling overturning South Carolina’s ban on gay marriage.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is formally appealing a judge’s ruling that tossed out the state’s ban on same-sex marriages. Wilson on Thursday filed a notice he would be appealing to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. He has called the ruling no surprise and that he is obligated to defend state laws.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he will appeal a federal judge’s ruling tossing out the state’s ban on same-sex marriages. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, ruling Wednesday in the case of a couple from Charleston suing to be married, found South Carolina’s state constitutional ban “invalid as a matter of law.”

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge has dismissed Gov. Nikki Haley as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage. But U.S. District Judge Michelle Childs ruled Monday that the case can continue against Attorney General Alan Wilson.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina’s attorney general is asking a federal judge to toss out a challenge to the state’s same-sex marriage ban citing last week’s federal appeals court decision upholding such bans in other states.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A same-sex couple married in Washington, D.C., and seeking to have South Carolina recognize the union is suing the wrong people in the wrong court, state Attorney General Alan Wilson argued in federal court documents filed late Thursday.

BLUFFTON, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says any final decision on the legality of same-sex marriage in the state could be months away. Area media outlets report Wilson made the comment during a campaign stop at Sun City near Hilton Head Island on Wednesday when he was confronted by a same-sex couple who…

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is asking the state Supreme Court to stop a Charleston County judge from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Wilson’s office filed its petition late Wednesday afternoon.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he will keep fighting to uphold the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Wilson issued a statement Monday hours after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal of a ruling allowing same-sex marriage by a federal appeals court with jurisdiction over South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for Gov. Nikki Haley and Attorney General Alan Wilson said in court papers filed this week that the state of South Carolina doesn’t have to recognize gay marriages performed legally in other states and the nation’s capital.