COLUMBIA, S.C. AP – A judge on Wednesday dismissed a complaint accusing South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley of breaking ethics laws while she was a lawmaker, ruling that such issues should be handled by either state ethics officials or a legislative panel.
“Alleged violations of the Ethics Code … are exclusively within the subject matter jurisdiction of the State Ethics Commission or the Legislative Ethics Committees, not the circuit court,” Judge Casey Manning wrote Wednesday in his dismissal of John Rainey’s lawsuit against the first-term Republican.
