Women & Victim's Rights
In our ongoing efforts to champion women and victims' rights, our office has introduced numerous pieces of legislation this year alone. From combatting cybercrimes and human trafficking, to addressing violence perpetrated against women by illegal aliens, we're dedicated to enhancing accountability and imposing stricter penalties on perpetrators of violence against women.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 21, 2026) - Today, Representative Nancy Mace (SC-01) announced her support for contempt of Congress proceedings against former President Bill Clinton for defying a Congressional subpoena related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Rep. Mace released the following statement:
"I'm the only member of this Committee who has held people in contempt on BOTH sides. Republicans AND Democrats. If you defy a Congressional Subpoena, you get held in contempt. No one is above the law.
We stand with every mom who wants nothing more than for their child to be safe. We stand with you on the road to ensure predators get the punishments and JAIL TIME they deserve.
This is what protects children.
Violent offenders are walking free because South Carolina’s Attorney General refuses to hold prosecutors accountable.
When prosecutors take federal money but decline to charge cases involving child abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking, the public deserves answers and consequences.
Public records reveal that in one South Carolina county, the majority of child sexual exploitation cases were dismissed with zero jury convictions.
South Carolina deserves better than a justice system protecting child predators.
Our children come first. Prosecute predators. Keep them behind bars.
HOLD THE LINE.
Seventy years. This is what Travis Reed Gaye faced for sexually exploiting a minor. He violated probation and walked free just hours later.
South Carolina went three years with zero jury trials for child predators, with cases pled down behind closed doors. No trials. No accountability. No justice for children.
We introduced the Preventing Prosecutors from Protecting Predators Act to expose a system failing our children and to demand accountability from prosecutors nationwide.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Jan. 16, 2026) – Congresswoman Nancy Mace issued the following statement after Attorney General Alan Wilson released data showing three counties in South Carolina's First Congressional District ranked among the highest in the state for human trafficking in 2025:
These moms are mountain movers.
It took five years of mothers organizing across South Carolina to criminalize luring a child to a vehicle, because it wasn't considered illegal until the door closed behind them. THIS is the power of mothers who refuse to quit.
We stand shoulder to shoulder with them in demanding better for our children in South Carolina.
Law enforcement did their job. They investigated. They arrested. They built the case. But Travis Gaye, facing seven felony charges and 70 years, walked free because a weak Attorney General pled it down to one charge. Then ten days later, he violated probation and was released hours afterward.
We stand shoulder to shoulder with these Lowcountry moms in demanding better for our children. This isn't political. Protecting our children is personal, and it's past time for accountability.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Jan. 15, 2026) — Today, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01) condemned the arrest and same-day release of Travis Reed Gaye, who previously pleaded guilty to child sex offenses, calling the incident a "complete failure" of South Carolina's criminal justice system under Attorney General Alan Wilson and his abject failure to prosecute child sexual exploitation.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Jan. 14, 2026) – Today, Congresswoman Nancy Mace demanded answers from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson after he not only refused to comply with her Congressional office’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the lack of prosecution of pedophiles and child predators in South Carolina, but threatened to take her to court instead of providing the documents.