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…
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If you’re looking for a quick two weeks of work, the four committees circulating ballot question initiatives would be happy to put you to work.…
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…
A year ago, when the anti-democracy schemes in our Legislature passed 2020 Senate Bill 180 to get out of trouble with the courts, I said…
In my conversation with Amy Scott-Stoltz Sunday about how to circulate ballot question petitions, I emphasized that volunteer circulators do not have to register with the…
…And We Still Need a Ruling on Petition Deadlines! This news will be no comfort to the family of Joe Boever and all South Dakotans…
South Dakota and I are taking each other to federal court today. Judges Gruender, Erickson, and Kobes of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will…