The Senate put a cork in Senator and paid Trump consultant Neal Tapio‘s pro-Trump/anti-Islam grandstanding yesterday. After allowing Watertown’s Trump spokesman his eight minutes of pathetic…
Tag: First Amendment
In a video extra for the radio (I love the 21st century!), The Greg Belfrage Show producer Todd Epp asked me about Senate Bill 134, the bill…
…like how the telescreens and Room 101 are for your own good, Winston Smith. Greg Belfrage and I capped our interview this morning with a…
Our Republican legislators wag their fingers at us voters for passing Initiated Measure 22, which they repealed on the insistence that it was unconstitutional. But when they…
Last week Rep. Tim Goodwin withdrew his offensive House Bill 1145, the vague “no-go zone” bill based on Breitbartian Islamophobia. I’m glad to see that bill…
Rep. Tim Goodwin has shown himself to be a poor reader of law; now the Rapid City Republican shows he’s just as bad at writing…
In an undercard to the South Dakota Legislature’s sex scandal, KSFY took a stand for journalists’ First Amendment rights against the state. KSFY recorded an interview with a former intern…
Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) has roused 18 Republican colleagues to co-sponsor a poorly worded, unworkable, and unconstitutional restriction on out-of-state campaign contributions to ballot question…
Rep. Michael Clark (R-9/Hartford) takes a moment to mock public protest as futile: On the opening day, there was a group of a dozen or…
Governor Dennis Daugaard reached for an awkward analogy yesterday to justify Republican legislators’ impending attack on our right to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot:…