[4] Bamberg's predecessor, Bakari Sellers, vacated the South Carolina House of Representatives District 90 seat to run for Lieutenant Governor in 2014.
[7] In 2016, Bamberg successfully defended his seat, defeating Evert Comer, Jr. to win the Democratic Primary,[8] and Republican Dan Lawrence in the general election.
[19] In September 2022, Bamberg criticized US Senate Democratic Nominee Krystle Matthews for remarks about white people released by Project Veritas and subsequently by major news outlets.
[29] Bamberg represented the family of 20-year old Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas of Raleigh, North Carolina, who was shot and killed by a neighbor when leaving a house party in August 2016 – a shooting that drew comparisons to Trayvon Martin's death in Florida,[30] and "Jane Doe," an Orangeburg County, South Carolina woman who was allegedly coerced into performing a sex act by an on-duty deputy sheriff.
"[32] Bamberg took the case of an unarmed, 86-year-old man tasered by an officer with the Town of Kingstree after a traffic stop in rural South Carolina.
[33] The police department reported that the elderly man had failed to stop for blue lights and on exiting his vehicle, was tasered by the officers "for his own safety."
[34] During the same time period, Bamberg undertook representing the mother of Del'Quan Seagers, a minor who died in 2015 while in the custody of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and residing at a wilderness camp operated by AMIKids, Inc., a national non-profit organization operating juvenile wilderness camps and alternative school across the United States.
[35] On January 27, 2017, the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and the wilderness camps operated by AMIKids came under tremendous scrutiny after a thorough review and scathing report was issued by the South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, which found numerous failures by the department and company in the operations of the camps for detained juveniles.
[41] The former officer, Michael Slager, pled guilty to federal civil rights violations and sentenced to 20 years for the murder of Walter Scott.
Harpootlian also sent a letter to United States Attorney for the District of Carolina Adair Ford Boroughs requesting a federal investigation of conduct in the case.
[48] At a press conference held on March 25, 2024, Hill, standing with attorney Bamberg, submitted her resignation from the post of Colleton County Clerk of Court to Governor Henry McMaster.