So if I already got the courts to say that any initiative petition deadline earlier than six months before the election violates the First Amendment,…
Tag: First Amendment
I had the pleasure of spending Monday in federal court in Rapid City. I testified as an expert witness on circulating ballot question petitions on…
Taxpayers continue to lose money on the state’s persistent violations of the First Amendment. The State of South Dakota has to pay the lawyers who…
Well, now that the American Civil Liberties Union has secured the right of South Dakotans with $25 to burn to put whatever they want on…
Minnehaha County and ballot question committee Dakotans for Health have finally settled the lawsuit that resulted in an injunction of the county’s attempt to ban…
Patrick Lalley’s report on the plagiarism behind Governor Kristi Noem’s bad-plumber ads reminds us of the importance of anonymity in a one-party regime. His multiple…
One might be inclined to think that the ACLU’s lawsuit against the state for denying vanity license plates on the basis of “poor taste” is…
After a summer of waffling, the Lawrence County Commission last month finally rectified its Constitutional error and acknowledged that the First Amendment allows citizens to…
Senator Michael Rohl’s Republican friends in Brown County unsurprisingly agree with him that direct democracy is evil. The Brown County Commission Tuesday decided to join…
The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding justice for personalized license plate applicants who have been arbitrarily denied their seven characters of creativity. In a…