Powers
- Appoints directors to 14 cabinet agencies, but most appointments are shared with the General Assembly.
- Commander-in-Chief of the South Carolina National Guard.
- Commander-in-Chief of the South Carolina State Guard, which is an auxiliary of the National Guard organized for in-state homeland defense to protect the lives and property of South Carolinians.
- Grants reprieves and commutes death sentences to life imprisonment.
- May call the General Assembly to an extra session.
- A general veto and a Line-item veto on budget bills.
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