Judiciary
Hearth that burned down house of choose who dominated in voter-data case is beneath investigation
October 6, 2025, 1:59 pm CDT
South Carolina Circuit Choose Diane Goodstein presides over a trial July 8, 2014, in St. George, South Carolina. (Picture by Jeffrey Collins/The Related Press)
Authorities are investigating the reason for a hearth that destroyed the beachfront house of a South Carolina choose, injuring a minimum of three of her relations.
Choose Diane Goodstein, 69, of the First Judicial Circuit in South Carolina was strolling on the seaside when the hearth started on the Edisto Island house Saturday, FITSNews experiences right here and right here.
The house’s occupants escaped by leaping from the elevated first ground, in keeping with a Fb publish by the St. Paul’s Hearth District. They have been rescued by kayak from the yard of the house, which was in a distant location on a barrier island.
Goodstein was within the information final month when she quickly blocked the South Carolina Election Fee from offering voter registration data to the federal authorities. Her order was reversed by the South Carolina Supreme Court docket.
Amongst these injured was Goodstein’s husband, former Democratic state legislator Arnold Goodstein, 81, who was airlifted to a Charleston, South Carolina, hospital, in keeping with FITSNews. Unnamed relations informed FITSNews that he was a hero as a result of he made certain that everybody evacuated the house earlier than leaping to flee smoke and flames.
Different publications with protection embrace the New York Instances, the Impartial, the Guardian, the Each day Beast and Time.
South Carolina Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Kittredge referenced an “explosion” on the property in an e-mail replace to judges; household accounts stated the explosion might have been from the hearth spreading to close by automobiles, in keeping with FITSNews.
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