A state senator is suing his fellow lawmakers in the South Carolina General Assembly saying they are illegally giving themselves what is effectively an $18,000-a-year raise for all members. The increase in the “in-district compensation” — money set aside for legislative duties that has few limits on how it can be spent — is

The state of South Carolina has a week to explain why pay raises approved in the new state budget should stand.

A state senator is asking the state’s highest court to halt a $2,500-monthly raise that legislators voted for themselves. Sen. Wes Climer, a Rock Hill Republican, filed the request Monday. He and his attorney,