Senate Bill 180, Senator Jim Stalzer’s effort to salvage some shreds of circulator stifling from the unconstitutional wreck of his co-sponsor Representative Jon Hansen‘s 2019…
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Senate Bill 180, Senator Jim Stalzer’s retread of Representative Jon Hansen’s circulator registry and badges, was supposed to get a hearing in Senate Local Government…
The very sensible, pro-people-power Senate Bill 112 goes to Senate State Affairs Monday at 10 a.m. in Capitol Room 414. The bill would strike SDCL…
Two really funny things happened yesterday with regards to the South Dakota Republican Party’s effort to restrict your initiative and referendum rights. First, the Attorney…
Economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is winding up for a one-two counterpunch to the Republican war on initiative and referendum. This morning I…
“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:
Posts on SD Voice v. Noem II Trial: Harassment by Petition Blockers in 2015 Shows HB 1094 Circulator Registry and Badges Dangerous, Misguided Secretary of…
I return to the federal courthouse here in Aberdeen tomorrow to argue once again for your freedom of speech. At 10:30 a.m. CST, Judge Charles…
John Dale, who is circulating an initiative petition to legalize cannabis in South Dakota, is trying a novel approach to soliciting signatures, using online signups…
So far this week I’ve been publicly called a hypocrite and a liar online. I’ve properly refuted those false claims. Now I come to an…