Trey Walker Quotes (8 Quotes)

Now states are addicted to this money. The state, for better or for worse -- we are wedded now to those payments.

That was a concern addressed on the floor of the House last week. We certainly don't want South Carolina to become a state where methamphetamine is readily available. That's not the kind of message we want to send or the kind of state we want to be.

We would say it's a very favorable development for the state because the Supreme Court has decided to hear the matter instead of denying a hearing and remanding it the Court of Appeals, which could draw the case out potentially for years.

It is now awaiting action in the Senate. Sometimes things move quickly and sometimes they don't. It could be a couple months. It has to go through some committees and then to the floor.

In the Rhode Island case, there were no identified victims, and that type of litigation -and the rapid spread of that type of litigation against businesses all across the country by attorneys general -makes Attorney General McMaster very uncomfortable.

The attorney general is preparing for a massive lawsuit fighting tobacco companies for full payment.

It's a waste of taxpayers' money to fund a pilot project. We've already had one called the attorney general's pro bono project. It's demonstrated that prosecutors in magistrate courts work.

Constitutional law is under continual reinterpretation by the Supreme court. Attorney General McMaster supports the most stringent penalties allowable for these heinous crimes and will defend any law the General Assembly passes which seeks to stop these monsters.