<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina Republican lawmaker said he is filing a bill that would allow former President Donald Trump to buried on the grounds of the state Capitol if Trump is banned from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery.</p>
<p>Rep. RJ May said his bill is in response to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/484/text?r=26&s=1">a bill in the U.S. House </a> sponsored by a Democrat banning twice impeached presidents from being honored with the burial at one of the nation’s most revered resting places or having federal money spent on any memorials.</p>
<p>Trump is the only president to be impeached twice.</p>
<p>May’s proposed bill only applies to twice acquitted presidents — the U.S. Senate refused to convict Trump both times the House impeached him.</p>
<p>If Trump agreed to be buried at the South Carolina Statehouse, a committee would determine a proper resting place.</p>
<p>May’s bill was not listed among the introduced bills Thursday in the House, but the first-term legislator from the Republican stronghold of Lexington County posted a screen shot of the proposal on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VoteRJMay/photos/a.120553732854526/268210491422182">his Facebook page.</a></p>
<p>Only one other person is buried on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse. Revolutionary War captain Swanson Lunsford died of yellow fever in 1799 and was interred on a remote part of the grounds because Columbia officials were likely worried the disease might spread if he was buried in a church or public cemetery, according to Historic Columbia.</p>
<p>Neither the national or state Trump burial bills have advanced beyond filing. In the first two months of the South Carolina General Assembly session, nearly 1,000 bills have been filed.</p>
