Tom Barnett didn’t fly up from Florida to sit next to me in the courtroom when he joined a copycat lawsuit that helped me overturn…
Category: South Dakota
Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) isn’t just trying to suppress absentee voting; he’s also trying to oppress our poor election workers. Facing a surge of absentee…
In response to valid concerns that crowded polling places could spread coronavirus, many states sensibly mailed absentee ballots to every voter. South Dakota Secretary of…
Congressman Dusty Johnson is participating in his party’s ongoing drive to dilute the vote of non-Republicans and rig elections in the dwindling white majority’s favor.…
Governor Kristi Noem’s lawyers went to court to fight Amendment A, South Dakota’s impending marijuana constitutionalization. On one key point, the Attorney General’s office, which…
Governor Kristi Noem’s attack on Representative Taffy Howard over Howard’s open-records legislation reminds me of another instance where Noem’s brittleness and arrogance drew her into another…
Law and order? Nah—Representative Tom Pischke wants killers to do less time. House Bill 1185 would knock first-degree manslaughter down from a Class C felony…
Representative Marli Wiese (R-8/Madison) is a coward, but at least she likes brownies. Rep. Wiese gives us House Bill 1121, which would deregulate the homemade-food market.…
Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) would introduce a little more certainty into the timeline for printing ballots and for challenging the candidates and questions that may…
Governor Kristi Noem likes to spin criticism against her as a sign that she’s popular and right (kinda like saying Mrs. McGregor’s baking Peter Rabbit’s dad…