When the Eighth Circuit overturned South Dakota’s unconstitutional twelve-month deadline for initiative petitions in February, the Legislature acted quickly to fill that legal gap by…
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You know how the Legislature needs to act immediately to re-establish the deadline for submitting initiative petitions, thanks to my win at the Eighth Circuit…
The state has suffered another loss in court over its effort to quash South Dakotans’ right to initiative and referendum. Yesterday the Eighth Circuit upheld…
Last week when the League of Women Voters filed its lawsuit against South Dakota alleging that a 30-day residency requirement for ballot question petition circulators…
Speaking of petitions, the League of Women Voters—both the South Dakota chapter and the national organization—and LWV members Susan Randall and Kathryn Fahey are suing…
Rapid City attorney Jim Leach had to spend his St. Patrick’s Day in St. Paul, Minnesota, defending South Dakotans’ right to circulate ballot question petitions…
Governor Kristi Noem and the State of South Dakota have lost another battle in their war on your initiative and referendum rights. Three months ago,…
The state hasn’t given up the fight to suppress voter rights by suppressing the circulation of ballot question petitions. Ten days after Judge Lawrence Piersol…
A year and a half ago, when Republican legislators scrambled to come up with a replacement for their petition circulator registry scheme that I destroyed…
While everybody had their eye on Kristi Noem’s unconstitutional effort in the South Dakota Supreme Court to take away our constitutional right to write our…