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Dispatches

  • June 16, 2026 · Dispatch

    Court appoints former Judge Kristi Harrington as third-party neutral to sort the 11,000+ disputed files in Mace's Google Drive

    On June 16, 2026, Judge Donald B. Hocker appointed Kristi Harrington, a Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge, to serve as a 'third-party neutral' in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, No. 2025-CP-10-2671), one of the cluster of cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and her former fiance, Patrick Bryant. Harrington's task is to review the more than 11,000 electronic files in what the court calls 'Mace's Google Drive,' files that both Mace and Bryant claim to own, and decide which, if any, must be turned over in discovery. The court split her fees between the two camps, warned the volume could make the process 'very cost-prohibitive,' and entered the order over Mace's objection. The order makes no finding on privilege, admissibility, ownership, or wrongdoing; the underlying allegations remain contested and unproven.

  • June 9, 2026 · Dispatch

    Under a gag order barring 'any comment about any aspect of this case,' Mace uses her televised concession speech to talk about 'predators that got away in my case'

    On the night of June 9, 2026, after conceding the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace told her Charleston election-night crowd, and a live television audience, that she had talked to Attorney General Alan Wilson 'about my case' and would help his administration ensure that 'predators that got away in my case … we finally put criminals behind bars.' Mace is a third-party defendant in Berg v. Bryant, where a November 26, 2025 gag order bars every party from 'making or publishing any comment about any aspect of this case' or about any party or person connected to it, and a January 12, 2026 civil-contempt motion over her earlier public statements remains pending. Both orders are reproduced in full below. Mace contends the gag order is unconstitutional; all underlying allegations are unproven and contested, and no court has ruled on the June 9 remarks.

  • June 8, 2026 · Dispatch

    Gretchen Carlson, who helped write the Speak Out Act, files a sworn declaration backing Alexis Berg

    On June 8, 2026, Alexis Berg's counsel filed a reply brief in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671) arguing that the federal Speak Out Act makes the non-disparagement clause ADW is suing on judicially unenforceable, because the dispute before the court involves sexual-assault allegations. Attached was a sworn declaration from Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor whose 2016 case helped inspire the Act, who states she has met with Berg and that 'this is exactly the situation we fought to address,' and offers to testify. ADW argues the Act does not apply. The motion is undecided; the underlying allegations are contested and denied.

  • March 5, 2026 · Dispatch

    'To Simply Make Up a Legal Standard Is Inexcusable': Opposing Counsel Asks Court to Sanction Mace's Pro Se TRO Filing

    In a March 5, 2026 response filed in ADW v. Berg, Assignment Desk Works' counsel Rene Dukes told a Charleston court that Rep. Nancy Mace's pro se emergency TRO motion cited a four-part legal standard that does not exist under South Carolina law, misrepresented a second case as supporting a doctrine it does not mention, and contradicted itself on whether an attorney-client relationship ever existed. Dukes asked the court to deny the motion and sanction Mace under Rule 11, the rule that requires any litigant, represented or not, to certify that a filing has good-faith legal and factual support.

  • March 4, 2026 · Dispatch

    For All the Accusations, 'Not One Woman Other Than Defendant Has Brought an Action Against Bryant, Including Mace'

    In a two-page response filed March 4, 2026, ADW's counsel Rene Stuhr Dukes told a Charleston court that despite a coordinated effort by Ali Berg and Nancy Mace to level sexual-crime accusations against Patrick Bryant, no woman — including Mace herself — has filed a legal action against him. The filing is opposing counsel's argument, not a judicial finding; Bryant's denials and an open SLED investigation remain part of the record.

  • February 10, 2026 · Dispatch

    Bryant's Own Lawyer Alleges Mace 'Stole' His Phone and Hired a PI to Extract Its Data

    In a public court filing, Patrick Bryant's attorney asserted in an email exhibit that Nancy Mace took Bryant's Samsung Galaxy S22 from his home and hired a private investigator to copy files off it. The allegations are unproven and contested; Berg's motion argues that Bryant's own pleadings directly contradict the account.

  • February 2, 2026 · Dispatch

    Opposing Counsel Tells Court Mace's Motion Is 'Intended to Delay This Litigation, Harass Plaintiff, Its Members, and Agents'

    In a February 2026 court filing, ADW's counsel Rene Dukes argued that Rep. Nancy Mace had no legal standing to intervene in the ADW v. Berg breach-of-contract case and that her motion was frivolous, filed solely to harass and delay. Dukes also noted that Mace's filing invoked her own congressional floor speech, in which she had named private citizens who are members of the plaintiff.

  • January 27, 2026 · Dispatch

    Mace Calls ADW's Breach-of-Contract Suit a 'Fishing Expedition,' Moves to Dismiss It, Despite Not Being a Party

    On January 27, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, not a party to ADW v. Berg, a breach-of-contract case between her company and a former employee, filed an Emergency Motion to Intervene, seeking to dismiss the suit, impose sanctions on both sides' attorneys, and block all discovery. Mace signed the motion herself, as a pro se litigant, and certified that she had skipped the required meet-and-confer with opposing counsel because, in her judgment, it 'would not be productive.' ADW v. Berg is a civil case in Charleston County; no findings of fact have been made.

  • January 27, 2026 · Dispatch

    'This Court Now Stands as the Only Barrier': Mace Files Sworn Emergency Motion to Gag Opposing Lawyers

    On January 27, 2026, Nancy Mace filed a sworn, verified Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in the ADW v. Berg civil case, asking a Charleston County judge to bar opposing counsel, Patrick Bryant, and Berg's attorneys from accessing or using materials she called privileged. The motion — signed under oath by Mace personally — also places her gubernatorial candidacy on the official court record.

  • January 26, 2026 · Dispatch

    Mace voluntarily shared her Google Drive as 'helpful' evidence, then sent 'threatening' letters demanding it back

    In a January 2026 emergency motion, Ali Berg's attorney Marybeth Mullaney told a Charleston court that Congresswoman Nancy Mace had voluntarily handed over her Google Drive in June 2025, saying she believed it would be 'helpful' to Berg's defense, and then reversed course, sending what the motion calls 'threatening emails and letters' demanding Berg's counsel stop using the materials, return or destroy them, and 'claw back' items already produced in discovery. The motion asks the court to step in and decide whether Berg may keep using what Mace herself provided.

  • January 21, 2026 · Dispatch

    In a letter to the judge overseeing her gag order, Mace calls the court a 'Kangaroo Court' and moves the contempt matter to federal court: 'I will not be SILENCED.'

    On January 21, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote directly to Judge Donald B. Hocker, the Charleston County circuit judge presiding over Berg v. Bryant, the case in which she is a third-party defendant under a gag order, calling the court a 'Kangaroo Court,' declaring the gag order unconstitutional, and announcing she was removing the contempt proceeding against her to federal court. Mace wrote the letter pro se, after she says she had discharged her counsel; it was stamped FILED on the state docket January 22, 2026. The full five-page filing is reproduced below. The allegations underlying the litigation are disputed and contested; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.

  • January 15, 2026 · Dispatch

    Bryant moves for sanctions over 'fake, AI generated citations' in Mace legal brief, and a cover-up that compounded them

    Patrick Bryant filed a Rule 11 sanctions motion in the Berg v. Bryant litigation alleging that Rep. Nancy Mace's attorney submitted AI-fabricated case citations in a court brief, then, the motion alleges, attempted to conceal the error by filing an amended brief that itself allegedly continued to use fabricated citations. Bryant's motion documents the alleged cover-up paragraph by paragraph. Mace and her attorney D. Craig Brown dispute the allegations; no court has ruled on the motion.

  • January 11, 2026 · Dispatch

    While the gag order holds, Mace promotes her 'Predators Act' as 'deeply personal'

    On January 11, 2026, with the Berg v. Bryant gag order in effect and days before the court's supplemental order, Mace promoted her 'Preventing Prosecutors from Protecting Predators Act' from her verified @RepNancyMace account, calling it 'deeply personal' and tying it to 'trauma' she says she experienced 'two years ago.' Opposing counsel flagged the post as a continued public statement about matters connected to the case.

  • January 3, 2026 · Dispatch

    While the gag order holds, Mace proposes Aggravated Voyeurism Act and ties it to her 'personal experiences' as a victim

    On January 3, 2026, with the Berg v. Bryant gag order in effect, Rep. Nancy Mace announced the Aggravated Voyeurism Act at the South Carolina statehouse and publicly tied it to her 'personal experiences' as a self-described victim of voyeurism. The announcement was not cited in the contempt motion filed January 12, 2026; it is presented here as a public statement made during the order's effective period. Mace disputes the validity and scope of the gag order.

  • December 31, 2025 · Dispatch

    A pinned post viewed 20,000+ times: Mace calls South Carolina a 'pedophile paradise' while the gag order is in effect

    On December 31, 2025, from her verified @RepNancyMace account, Mace published and pinned a post attacking the South Carolina Attorney General, calling the state a 'pedophile paradise' at a time when a gag order in Berg v. Bryant was in effect. The post reportedly re-shared content from her December 27, 2025 video. A contempt motion filed January 12, 2026 attaches it as Exhibit 9 and notes the post had been viewed more than 20,000 times. Mace disputes the validity of the gag order and its application to her.

  • December 27, 2025 · Dispatch

    Bowman's lawyer reports a December 27 Instagram video to the judge as a gag-order violation

    On December 27, 2025, while the Berg v. Bryant gag order was in effect, Mace posted a video on Instagram from @repnancymace; counsel for co-defendant Eric Bowman, Robert Merting, emailed Judge Hocker on December 29 to report it, and Bryant and Bowman's January 12, 2026 contempt motion attaches it as Exhibits 5-7, contending it referred to Bowman by name in terms implying criminal conduct 'that has not been alleged in this litigation.'

  • December 19, 2025 · Dispatch

    In her own sworn Answer, Mace admits she 'placed an air tag on Bryant's car for one day in August 2023'

    In her December 19, 2025 Answer to Patrick Bryant's Third-Party Complaint, Rep. Nancy Mace admits under oath that she placed a tracking device on Bryant's car and attempted to access his laptop, while denying Bryant's allegation that she intended to weaponize what she found. The filing is Mace's own account, in her own words, on the public court record.

  • December 17, 2025 · Dispatch

    'There are at least two people in Mace's car': Bryant's counsel refuses to delete the recording, and announces an amended complaint

    The recording of Nancy Mace's first phone call with Ali Berg, produced by Berg's counsel in the ADW v. Berg civil case, quickly became a courtroom fight. When Berg's counsel designated it confidential, Bryant's counsel refused to delete it, argued witnesses in the car undermined any privacy claim, and announced he would amend the complaint against Mace based on its contents.

  • December 1, 2025 · Dispatch

    While under the gag order, Mace's congressional office sends a mass newsletter about the case: 'I WILL NOT be silenced.'

    On December 1, 2025, while the Berg v. Bryant gag order was in effect, a mass email newsletter from Rep. Nancy Mace's congressional office, headlined 'Rep. Nancy Mace says 2 more women accuse her ex-fiancé of abuse,' named Patrick Bryant, recited unproven allegations, and declared 'I WILL NOT be silenced.' Bryant and Bowman's January 12, 2026 contempt motion attaches the newsletter as Exhibit 8, contending it violated the gag order.

  • November 28, 2025 · Dispatch

    Two days into the gag order, Mace posts: 'IMPEACH ALL CORRUPT JUDGES', 'especially including those in South Carolina SPECIFICALLY.'

    On November 28, 2025, two days after Judge Hocker entered the sua sponte gag order in Berg v. Bryant, Mace posted from her verified @RepNancyMace account calling to impeach 'all corrupt judges,' adding in the same thread 'especially including those in South Carolina SPECIFICALLY.' Bryant and Bowman's January 12, 2026 contempt motion makes the post Exhibit 4 and contends it violated the gag order.

  • November 26, 2025 · Dispatch

    Under four hours after the gag order reached her lawyer, Mace posts about a co-defendant's bond: 'Not nearly enough.'

    On November 26, 2025, the same day Judge Donald B. Hocker entered a sua sponte gag order in Berg v. Bryant and circulated it to all counsel at 2:23 p.m. Rep. Nancy Mace replied at 6:43 p.m. from her verified @RepNancyMace account to a post reporting that co-defendant Eric Bowman had been granted bond on domestic-violence and harassment charges, writing: 'Not nearly enough. Very concerned for the safety of his victims. Keeping them in my prayers tonight.' A contempt motion filed January 12, 2026 attaches the post as Exhibit 3 and contends it violated the order within hours of its issuance; Mace disputes both the motion and the validity of the order, calling it unconstitutional and unenforceable.

  • November 17, 2025 · Dispatch

    Patrick Bryant: 'Today I authorized my attorneys to file a temporary restraining order against Nancy Ruth Mace'

    On November 17, 2025, Judge Donald B. Hocker entered an order in Berg v. Bryant ending pseudonym use in the case, ruling that the identities of the plaintiff and a witness were already known to the public. Bryant announced a temporary restraining order motion the same day.

  • November 14, 2025 · Dispatch

    Patrick Bryant publishes Mace's emails to his lawyers: 'You poked the wrong bear. And you will pay dearly.'

    On November 14, 2025, Patrick Bryant published screenshots of emails he said a sitting Member of Congress sent to his attorneys and process server, including a profanity-laced reply to a cease-and-desist letter, an email authorizing service on two attorneys, and a reply from one of those attorneys stating she does not represent Mace. The screenshots are reproduced below; the allegations on every side are disputed and unproven.

  • November 6, 2025 · Dispatch

    Patrick Bryant: 'Today I filed a counterclaim and third-party complaint… Where is the evidence?'

    On November 6, 2025, Patrick Bryant announced he had filed a counterclaim and third-party complaint in Charleston County Court against Nancy Mace and alleged co-conspirators, denying he had ever assaulted anyone and demanding evidence.

  • November 5, 2025 · Dispatch

    Mace announces intent to sue: 'SUING FOR DEFAMATION!!'

    On Nov. 5, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace announced she had retained attorney Larry Klayman and intended to sue the Charleston Airport, American Airlines, and others for allegedly falsifying incident reports after her Oct. 30 confrontation. As of June 2026, no complaint had been filed in any court.

  • August 18, 2025 · Dispatch

    'Recuse themselves': Mace's official press release demands the prosecutor's removal and a state investigation into her

    On August 18, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace issued an official congressional press release headlined 'Solicitor Scarlett Wilson Tipped Off Abuser and Leaked Evidence to Harm Victim,' demanding that the elected Ninth Circuit Solicitor recuse from 'any and all cases related to this victim,' be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face 'a full and immediate state investigation into Wilson's misconduct.' Wilson responded that prosecutors are 'required by law and ethical rules to provide all relevant information to the defense' and that she would not 'play a part in the circus sideshow.' The allegations on all sides are unproven and contested.

  • June 27, 2025 · Dispatch

    Mace's own motion shows she signed a quitclaim deed to her ex-fiancé on Feb. 13, 2025, three days after accusing him of crimes on the House floor

    Mace's June 27, 2025 motion to enforce her settlement with Brendan (Patrick) Bryant documents that she executed a quitclaim deed transferring the beach house to him on Feb. 13, 2025, days after her Feb. 10 floor speech, while their property settlement was still being carried out.

  • June 19, 2025 · Dispatch

    'The solicitor leaked evidence': Mace accuses the prosecutor in her own cases on a national podcast

    On June 19, 2025, on the PBD Podcast, Rep. Nancy Mace named Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the elected chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, and accused her of leaking evidence, refusing to prosecute rape, and having 'inserted yourself into this investigation and … obstructed the investigation.' Wilson answered that her office was not running the investigation, SLED was, and said 'I have no idea what the Congresswoman is referring to.' The Post and Courier reported that when it asked Mace's office, repeatedly, for evidence of the obstruction claim, none was provided. The underlying allegations are unproven and contested.

  • May 12, 2025 · Dispatch

    Mace's own defamation complaint puts her House-floor accusations, and the men's furious replies, into the public record

    Suing Eric Bowman for defamation on May 12, 2025, Mace's complaint confirms she 'identified four individuals' from the House floor and reproduces, verbatim, the very accusations she calls false, including claims she steered VA contracts and 'destroy[ed] innocent men with zero evidence, zero charges.'

  • March 9, 2025 · Dispatch

    Patrick Bryant shares P&C report: Mace 'declined to answer' on private vs. taxpayer-funded defense

    On March 9, 2025, Patrick Bryant shared a Post & Courier report on the legal exposure facing Rep. Nancy Mace after her House floor speech, spotlighting that her office declined to say whether she would use a private or taxpayer-funded attorney.

  • April 2, 2024 · Dispatch

    Ten months before accusing him from the House floor, Mace sued her ex-fiancé to split the beach house they owned together

    On April 2, 2024, Mace filed a partition action against Brendan (Patrick) Bryant to divide or sell a jointly owned Isle of Palms beach house. Her own complaint records that she and the man she would later accuse of crimes each held 'an undivided one half' interest in the property.

Incidents

  • Mace vs. the Solicitor: the campaign against the prosecutor in her own cases (2025)

    Beginning in June 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace publicly accused Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the elected chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, of leaking evidence, 'obstruct[ing] the investigation,' and protecting an abuser, and demanded Wilson recuse, be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face a state investigation. Wilson denied wrongdoing, noted SLED ran the investigation, and said the disclosure Mace called a 'leak' was a discovery obligation required by law. The Post and Courier reported Mace's office provided no evidence for the obstruction claim when asked. Allegations on all sides are unproven and contested.

    June 19, 2025 · Incident

  • The 'Breach of Trust' surveillance hearing & the silhouette photo (May 20, 2025)

    On May 20, 2025, roughly three months after her House floor speech, Rep. Mace chaired a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces' and used it to repeat her accusations against her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, including by holding up a poster-sized 'silhouette' image she said depicted her own body, taken without her consent. Bryant and the other named men deny all allegations; the matters are contested and in ongoing litigation.

    May 20, 2025 · Incident

  • The 'PREDATORS' poster outside her office (Feb.-Nov. 2025)

    After her February 10, 2025 House floor speech, Rep. Nancy Mace turned the prop into a fixture: a 'PREDATORS, STAY AWAY FROM' poster bearing the photos, names, and home towns of four named private citizens, which she mounted in the public hallway outside her Longworth office and pushed to her official social-media accounts. It stayed up for weeks, came down in late March 2025 (her press secretary said he knew nothing about its removal), and she revived the motif at a May 2025 Oversight hearing and again in November 2025, 'this will reside outside my office at the Capitol.' Photographs taken March 5, 2025 in the corridor outside her Longworth office show the board displayed alongside a companion 'NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN' board listing her women's-safety bills. The four men deny every allegation; no criminal charges have been filed; the matters are contested, unproven, and in ongoing litigation.

    February 11, 2025 · Incident

  • Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther

    In February 2025, Alexis 'Ali' Berg placed a recorded phone call to Erin Gunther, an Assignment Desk Works employee who held the position Berg once had. Across several public court filings, the call is described as one in which Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Rep. Nancy Mace had told her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. The audio and transcript are litigation discovery and are not public; what is public is how the call is recounted in filed pleadings, in a sworn affidavit quoted in a public memorandum, and in counsel's statements in open court. Every allegation on every side is contested and unproven, the parties deny the claims against them, no criminal charges have been filed, and the litigation is ongoing.

    February 10, 2025 · Incident

  • The 'PREDATORS' House-floor speech (Feb. 10, 2025)

    On February 10, 2025, Rep. Mace delivered a roughly 53-minute House floor speech making allegations against named men and vowing to 'burn this system to the ground.' The named individuals deny all allegations; civil litigation is ongoing.

    February 10, 2025 · Incident

  • The hacking allegation: 'I hacked into his computer and phone'

    A sworn affidavit by South Carolina journalist Ashleigh Messervy attests that at a private August 28, 2024 meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace, after explaining she 'used to be a programmer,' told her: 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone.' In her own court filings Mace denies that she 'hacked' the phone, saying her former fiance gave her express permission, added her thumbprint, and told her she could access it whenever she wanted, though she admits she accessed the hidden folders on his phone using a four-digit code. The word, and whether it fits the conduct, is contested; the matters remain unproven and in ongoing litigation.

    August 28, 2024 · Incident

Court filings

  • Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg

    Civil suit filed by Assignment Desk Works, LLC, a company tied to Patrick Bryant, against his former employee Alexis Berg to enforce a non-disparagement clause from a 2019 wage settlement. Rep. Nancy Mace is not a party, but she inserted herself as a 'Proposed Intervenor' to recover materials, including a recorded 2024 phone call, that she had voluntarily given Berg's lawyer, then tried to claw back. The court has repeatedly declined the relief she sought: already-produced materials stay in the record, Berg may keep using them, and the disputed files go to a neutral, all entered over Mace's objection.

    May 7, 2025 · Case

  • Musgrave v. Mace (2:25-cv-01823-RMG)

    Brian Musgrave, one of four men Rep. Nancy Mace named in her February 2025 House floor speech, filed a federal defamation and libel suit against her. The case turned on whether the Speech or Debate Clause and the Westfall Act shielded Mace from liability for statements made both inside and outside Congress. Senior District Judge Richard Gergel heard oral argument on August 20, 2025 and that same day entered an order that led Mace to characterize the case as resolved in her favor; the full scope of the ruling, and whether any claims survive, is addressed below.

    March 14, 2025 · Case

Wiki & people

  • Nancy Mace's Gag Order Violations

    A November 26, 2025 gag order bars Nancy Mace and the other parties in Berg v. Bryant from commenting on any aspect of the case, any party, or any attorney through any form of communication. This is that order. And a running record of the public statements she made after it, including the five that a January 2026 contempt motion asks the court to punish as repeated violations.

    June 12, 2026 · Wiki

  • Alexis 'Ali' Berg

    Alexis 'Ali' Berg is the named plaintiff in Berg v. Bryant, No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas); she initially filed under the pseudonym 'Jane Doe' and has publicly contradicted the account that prompted the lawsuit.

    June 10, 2026 · Wiki

  • Melissa Britton

    Melissa Britton is a Charleston-area businesswoman who is named as a Third-Party Defendant in Berg v. Bryant, No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas), and who is separately the subject of a related civil matter, Bowman v. Britton, No. 2025-CP-10-04343.

    June 10, 2026 · Wiki

  • Nancy Mace's Lawyers: A Timeline of Counsel

    A timeline of the attorneys and firms who have represented Rep. Nancy Mace across her cluster of South Carolina and federal lawsuits since 2023, each representation shown as a term of service, from the day counsel appeared to the day they withdrew, through her brief turn to representing herself pro se in January 2026 and her return to retained counsel, a national firm with pro hac vice co-counsel, in the Assignment Desk Works v. Berg matter in the spring of 2026. Office contact information for each firm is included.

    June 10, 2026 · Wiki

  • Vicki Pittman

    Vicki (Victoria) Pittman is a former housekeeper for Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit, describing a May 2025 encounter at Charleston International Airport in which she says Rep. Nancy Mace pressed her to corroborate personal allegations about Bryant, was submitted in the federal litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.

    June 10, 2026 · Wiki

  • Litigation Overview & Court-Filing Index

    A neutral, primary-source index of the South Carolina suits Nancy Mace has filed as plaintiff, a defamation case and a property case, with the public docket of each and links to the dispatches that quote the filings.

    June 9, 2026 · Wiki

  • William J. Hunter

    William J. 'Bill' Hunter of Oliver Maner LLP (Savannah, GA) was admitted pro hac vice to represent Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, in April 2026, appearing alongside her local counsel F. Cordes Ford IV.

    April 17, 2026 · Wiki

  • Sam Staley

    Sam Staley is a Charleston-area technology executive and a non-party witness whom Assignment Desk Works, LLC, the company of Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiancé Patrick Bryant, subpoenaed in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where a publicly filed motion to compel characterizes Staley as having connected Alexis Berg with Mace. The communications themselves were produced in discovery under a confidentiality designation and are not part of the public record; this entry summarizes only what the public court filing alleges.

    March 19, 2026 · Wiki

  • F. Cordes Ford IV

    F. Cordes Ford IV of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (Charleston) appeared as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, beginning March 2026, after Mace had spent the prior weeks representing herself pro se in the related litigation.

    March 9, 2026 · Wiki

  • D. Craig Brown

    D. Craig Brown of The Law Office of D. Craig Brown, LLC (Florence, SC) represented Rep. Nancy Mace as a Third-Party Defendant in Berg v. Bryant before being relieved by consent in January 2026.

    November 20, 2025 · Wiki

  • Alex G. Anderson

    Alex G. Anderson is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., who served as pro hac vice counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bowman (No. 2025-CP-10-02733).

    July 10, 2025 · Wiki

  • William M. Sullivan, Jr.

    Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., admitted pro hac vice as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bowman (2025) and public spokesperson during the House Ethics Committee inquiry.

    July 10, 2025 · Wiki

  • Ashleigh Messervy

    Ashleigh Messervy is a South Carolina journalist and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit describes an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace told her 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone' and recounted a series of unproven allegations about Bryant.

    June 30, 2025 · Wiki

  • John C. Johnston

    John C. Johnston of Johnston Law, LLC (Mount Pleasant, SC) served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the settlement-enforcement phase of Mace v. Bryant.

    June 27, 2025 · Wiki

  • Victoria W. Kurtz

    Victoria W. Kurtz is an attorney at Johnston Law, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the settlement-enforcement phase of Mace v. Bryant (No. 2024-CP-10-01725).

    June 27, 2025 · Wiki

  • Kris Furniss

    Kris Furniss is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina man and the ex-husband of Patrick Bryant's girlfriend whose written statement, describing a series of contacts in which he says Rep. Nancy Mace warned him about Bryant using unverified allegations and on May 9, 2025 texted him that Bryant 'is being investigated for potential wrongdoing and crimes committed against me and other women', was submitted in the federal litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.

    June 13, 2025 · Wiki

  • Mary Grace W. Maybank

    Mary Grace W. Maybank is an attorney at Wyndham Law Firm, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in GLT2, LLC v. Mace (No. 2025-CP-10-00981).

    June 10, 2025 · Wiki

  • Robert J. Wyndham

    Robert J. Wyndham is the founder of Wyndham Law Firm, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in both the GLT2 v. Mace matter (No. 2025-CP-10-00981) and Berg v. Bryant (No. 2025-CP-10-03124).

    June 10, 2025 · Wiki

  • Neely Kelleher

    Neely Kelleher is a South Carolina woman and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit, describing an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace made unverified allegations about Bryant and admitted accessing his phone by 'guessing his passcode', was submitted as an exhibit in the federal Musgrave v. Mace litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.

    May 27, 2025 · Wiki

  • Andrew B. Moorman, Sr.

    Founder of Moorman Law Firm, LLC in Greenville, SC, and lead South Carolina counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the Mace v. Bowman defamation suit (2025).

    May 12, 2025 · Wiki

  • Eric Bowman

    Eric Bowman is a Charleston-area businessman whom Rep. Nancy Mace publicly named in a February 2025 House floor speech and later sued for defamation in May 2025; Bowman has denied the underlying allegations and disputed the suit.

    May 12, 2025 · Wiki

  • Matthew B. Berry

    Matthew B. Berry, General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, oversaw the institutional defense of Rep. Nancy Mace in Musgrave v. Mace under the Speech or Debate Clause.

    March 7, 2025 · Wiki

  • Edward L. Phipps

    Attorney at The Phipps Law Firm, LLC in Charleston, SC, who filed the partition complaint for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bryant (2024).

    April 2, 2024 · Wiki

  • Mark R. H. Huber

    Attorney at The Phipps Law Firm, LLC in Charleston, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bryant (2024).

    April 2, 2024 · Wiki

Media coverage

  • Leaked Call Details Origins of Nancy Mace's 'Scorched Earth' Campaign

    FITSNews obtained a recording of an approximately 45-minute call between Mace and Alexis 'Ali' Berg, the woman whose allegations became central to Mace's public campaign against her former fiancé Patrick Bryant; raising questions about how the allegations evolved from a private conversation into a national political narrative.

    June 7, 2026 · Media

  • Civil Case Tied to Nancy Mace Careens Deeper Into Chaos

    Judge Hocker ordered materials subpoenaed by plaintiff Alexis Berg's attorneys turned over to the court for private review, as dueling emergency motions clashed over whether materials Mace voluntarily shared in June 2025 could be used in litigation, with Mace, now representing herself, filing an 82-page emergency motion to reclaim them as privileged.

    January 27, 2026 · Media

  • Nancy Mace: 'I WILL NOT BE SILENCED'

    Mace filed a five-page letter attacking Judge Hocker as running a 'kangaroo court,' fired her attorneys, announced plans to represent herself, and declared she would not comply with the gag order, while simultaneously seeking removal of the case to federal court.

    January 22, 2026 · Media

  • Sanctions Showdown: New Filing Accuses Nancy Mace's Lawyers of Fabricating Legal Citations

    Patrick Bryant filed a motion seeking Rule 11 sanctions after Mace's attorneys allegedly submitted fabricated case citations and false quotations in a court memorandum, then distributed an 'amended' version without disclosing the original errors, with the filing suggesting AI-generated legal research as a possible explanation.

    January 19, 2026 · Media

  • Gag Order Showdown: New Motion Targets Nancy Mace

    Attorneys for Patrick Bryant and Eric Bowman filed a contempt motion seeking civil sanctions, and possible incarceration, against Mace for allegedly violating the court-ordered gag order within hours of its issuance through social media posts, campaign emails, and congressional newsletters.

    January 13, 2026 · Media

  • Judge issues gag order restricting Nancy Mace and others from speaking about ongoing lawsuits

    The Post and Courier reports that Judge Hocker imposed a sua sponte gag order barring Mace and eight other parties from publicly discussing two related civil lawsuits, following her February 2025 House floor speech accusing four men of sexual exploitation.

    December 10, 2025 · Media

  • Gagged: Judge Issues Order in Nancy Mace Case

    Retired S.C. circuit court judge Donald B. Hocker issued a gag order prohibiting Mace and other parties to the Berg-Bryant civil litigation from making any public statements about the cases, barring speech across all platforms including social media.

    December 9, 2025 · Media

  • 'Where is the Video?': Court Filings Challenge Nancy Mace's Story

    Court filings reveal that even the plaintiff's own attorney acknowledged to the court that he did not have the video Mace claimed to have discovered; Bryant's counterclaim accuses Mace of allegedly accessing his phone without authorization, and the article reports his request for a TRO to compel in-camera review of the alleged evidence.

    November 18, 2025 · Media

  • New Filings Accuse Nancy Mace of Fabricating Sexual Assault Claims

    FITSNews covered Bryant's third-party complaint accusing Mace, Melissa Britton, and Jane Doe of conspiring to fabricate sexual assault allegations for personal and political gain. Bryant denied all underlying allegations. Mace denied Bryant's account and called the filing an attempt to pay her again. All allegations are contested; litigation is active.

    November 7, 2025 · Media

  • Ex-fiancé sues Rep. Nancy Mace, claims she fabricated sexual assault allegations

    Local Charleston television station Live 5 News was the first outlet to publish Bryant's lawsuit against Mace alleging she fabricated sexual assault claims. All allegations are contested; Mace denied Bryant's account; litigation is active.

    November 6, 2025 · Media

  • S.C. Chief Justice Consolidates Cases Involving Nancy Mace, Former Fiancé

    South Carolina Chief Justice John Kittredge assigned retired circuit judge Donald B. Hocker to oversee five civil lawsuits and two criminal indictments stemming from Mace's February 2025 House floor speech, with the order noting that additional civil lawsuits were expected and could be added to the docket.

    September 5, 2025 · Media

  • Under oath, former Nancy Mace strategist says SC congresswoman asked him to 'blackmail' her ex

    Under oath in a deposition, Mace's former campaign strategist Wesley Donehue testified that she asked him to 'blackmail' her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant over property and photos, not to contact police, and that he refused. Mace contests the characterization; all parties deny the most serious allegations; litigation is ongoing.

    May 23, 2025 · Media

  • Bombshell Deposition: Nancy Mace's Former Strategist Unloads

    FITSNews broke the Donehue deposition story two days before the Post and Courier, publishing lengthy excerpts of Donehue's sworn testimony that Mace pressed him to blackmail Bryant and that the original complaint contained no rape or sex-trafficking claims. Mace denies the characterization; all parties are adverse in ongoing civil litigation.

    May 21, 2025 · Media

  • Nancy Mace Parades Her Own Naked Photos in Bizarre Hearing

    Mace displayed before a House Oversight Committee hearing what she described as a silhouette image she said depicted her, allegedly taken without her consent by her ex-fiancé and others. Her ex-fiancé and the other accused men deny all allegations. Litigation is ongoing.

    May 20, 2025 · Media

  • Prosecutors drop charge against man who Rep. Nancy Mace claimed 'physically accosted' her

    CNN's companion to the NBC charges-dropped story; confirmed prosecutors declined to prosecute James McIntyre and included McIntyre's own statement directly rebutting Mace's account of being physically assaulted.

    April 3, 2025 · Media

  • Prosecutors drop charge against man who Rep. Nancy Mace accused of assaulting her at the Capitol

    Prosecutors dropped the misdemeanor assault charge against foster-care advocate James McIntyre, whom Mace had accused of 'physically accosting' her at a December 2024 Capitol event. Three eyewitnesses said McIntyre had simply shaken her hand. The dismissal drew wide coverage, which characterized the charge's collapse as undercutting Mace's account.

    April 2, 2025 · Media

  • US Rep. Nancy Mace sued for libel and defamation after making public accusations of abuse

    Brian Musgrave, one of the four men Mace accused by name in her February 2025 House floor speech, filed a federal defamation and libel suit against her. The case was ultimately dismissed as to floor-speech claims under the Speech or Debate Clause, though the judge left open whether Mace's social-media statements were protected. All allegations are contested; Mace denied wrongdoing.

    March 14, 2025 · Media

  • Exclusive: Man accused as 'predator' by Rep. Nancy Mace breaks his silence

    In an exclusive interview with CNN national correspondent Randi Kaye, aired the evening of March 10, 2025 as a segment on 'Anderson Cooper 360°', Brian Musgrave, one of the four men Rep. Nancy Mace named in her House floor speech, denied her allegations on camera: 'Absolutely not. No, no.' Mace's allegations are contested and unproven; the dispute is the subject of ongoing civil litigation.

    March 10, 2025 · Media

  • Rep. Nancy Mace details accusations of rape and sexual abuse in a speech from the House floor

    Mace used a 50-plus-minute House floor speech to accuse four named men, including her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, of rape, sex trafficking, and other crimes. All four men categorically denied the allegations to NBC. The speech triggered multiple defamation lawsuits and is central to ongoing litigation; all allegations are contested and unproven.

    February 11, 2025 · Media