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Mace v Bowman

8 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.

Dispatches

  • Pro Se: Nancy Mace has lost her lawyers again, this time in her own defamation suit against Eric Bowman

    On July 6, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace filed a Motion to Lift Stay in her own defamation case against Eric Bowman, and she filed it pro se, representing herself. On the coversheet she crossed out the entire 'Plaintiff's Attorney' block by hand, wrote 'N/A,' and wrote 'Pro Se.' The motion states she 'is now proceeding pro se in this matter, as reflected in the Notice filed June 30, 2026.' It is the second time in this cluster of cases she has gone without counsel. The three attorneys who filed and briefed the Bowman case for her, local counsel Andrew B. Moorman, Sr. and the two Washington lawyers she brought in pro hac vice, William M. Sullivan, Jr. and Alex G. Anderson, are no longer her counsel of record. A separate notice filed the same day names all three and asks the Clerk of Court to remove them. The complete eight-page motion, and the counsel-withdrawal notice, are reproduced below. Allegations on every side are contested and unproven; Bowman denies Mace's claims and has moved to dismiss, and Mace denies Bowman's.

  • 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.'

Court filings

  • Mace v. Bowman

    Defamation suit filed May 12, 2025 by Rep. Nancy Mace against Eric Bowman over posts on X. The case was stayed by consent June 2, 2026; on July 6, 2026 Mace, now proceeding pro se, moved to lift the stay so Bowman's fully-briefed motion to dismiss can be decided.

Wiki & people

  • Judge Donald B. Hocker

    South Carolina Circuit Court judge specially assigned by order of the Supreme Court of South Carolina to preside over the entire cluster of Charleston County cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and Patrick Bryant, including Berg v. Bryant (Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124).

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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).