Speaking of the single-subject rule, Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) is doing a little more hacking of citizens’ right to amend their constitution with House Bill…
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In 2018, South Dakota voters incorrectly and anti-democratically approved Amendment Z, the single-subject rule for proposed constitutional amendments. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem and the…
South Dakota’s Constitution assigns the Lieutenant Governor to preside over the State Senate and cast tie-breaking votes, just as the United States Constitution assigns the…
Rookie Senator Brent Hoffman (R-9/Sioux Falls) wants to clear out some dead wood from the Legislature. His Senate Joint Resolution 504 would put before voters an amendment…
Representative Jess Olson (R-34/Rapid City) and Senator Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) are taking the pronouns war to South Dakota’s law books. Olson’s House Bill 1175 proposes to…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again… but first sit around and wait for four years? In another attack on the right of…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
The war on initiative and referendum continues, and Republicans are winning. Senate Bill 77: Thinking Go Big or Go Home, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) upped his…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck and rookie Representative Will Mortenson join this year’s cycle of the Republican war on people power with Senate Bill 86, which appears…
The big players in health care in South Dakota have decided that they are ready to buck South Dakota’s one-party regime and help put Medicaid…