Rob Harris is an American politician who is currently serving as a member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives
The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections.
Unlike many legislatures, seatin ...
from the 36th district. He is a
Republican.
Political career
In the June 2022 Republican primary Harris defeated incumbent
Rita Allison
Merita Ann Allison (born February 19, 1940) is an American politician. She is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. ...
, who had held the office since 2008. He was unopposed in the 2022 general election.
He assumed office December 6, 2022.
Harris serves on the House Medical, Military, Municipal and Public Affairs Committee.
["House Standing Committees". ''South Carolina Legislature''. December 7, 2022. Retrieved December 26, 2022.]
Harris authored the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023, which would make women who had abortions eligible for the
death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...
. The bill attracted 21 Republican co-sponsors.
Harris is a
far-right
Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...
conservative.
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References
External links
Legislative profile
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1965 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Columbia Southern University alumni
21st-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly
21st-century American far-right politicians