KELO-TV tries to explain the League of Women Voters’ legal challenge to South Dakota’s 30-day residency requirement for ballot question petition circulators. Unfortunately, reporter Jazzmine…
Posts tagged as “Charles Kornmann”
U.S. Deputy Marshal Kara Kinney flouted South Dakota’s federal court rules on coronavirus safety last spring. Now has demonstrated more contempt for Judge Charles Kornmann’s…
The United States Marshals who defied U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann’s coronavirus safety protocols in May will face no judicial penalty, not because they did…
South Dakota democracy still has a fighting chance in federal court. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann denied the state’s request that he stay his…
Judge Charles Kornmann’s effort to hold leaders of the United States Marshals Service accountable for refusing to comply with his Court’s coronavirus vaccination rules in…
Guess who just beat Kristi Noem and Jason Ravnsborg in court again? South Dakota required citizens to submit petitions for statewide initiated laws a full…
The contempt trial against the United States Marshals Service for refusing to comply with vaccination rules set by the United States District Court of South…
Monday was already a good day in federal court in South Dakota. And then…and then! When a U.S. Marshal on May 10 refused to follow…
U.S. Marshals face contempt of court for refusing to follow a federal judge’s orders and disrupting court proceedings in Aberdeen. On March 25, Judge Charles…
“It’s a bad day for the rule of law in South Dakota,” whimpers Representative Jon Hansen, as if, as Trumpists like to claim, a Constitutional exercise of checks and balances against overreach by one branch of government is really some extralegal coup.
The U.S. District Court ruling Friday overturning Hansen’s 2019 House Bill 1094 did make for a bad day, not for the rule of law, but for the unchecked rule of lawmakers like Hansen who crave absolute power and hold in contempt the voters and their First Amendment rights.
[I proceed now into heavy quoting of a legal ruling, which itself is rife with quotes within quotes and complicated legal citations. I omit the judge’s internal citations and simply put any text I take from the ruling in quote marks (for short passages) or blockquotes (for longer passages). To see whether the words come from Judge Kornmann or from cases he cited, please see his original document.]
Judge Charles Kornmann makes clear from the first page of his ruling in SD Voice v. Noem II that he acts with the utmost respect for the law and the proper place of the judiciary in evaluating it: