Politics & Government

Supreme Court To Hear Appeal on Haley Ethics Case

High court will re-open case thought to be finished.

It's the case that won't end. The South Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal to the ethics case against Gov. Nikki Haley.

The ethics charges against . They were by a circuit court. The following month, the into Haley's finances and . But then Joan Brady, an Ethics Committee member, look into the case--even though Brady had just cleared the governor of any misdeeds. 

In May, the Ethics Committee . In June, there was a hearing, during which The day after Haley's comments, the for a second time. Now, the case has been re-opened yet again.

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The core of Rainey's complaint is the accusation that Haley worked as a lobbyist while a member of the House of Representatives.

But some have suggested that the hard feelings between Haley and Rainey go much deeper than ethics violations.

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