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…
Tag: First Amendment
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:…
In good news, House Republicans’ retreat from their sneaky effort to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics shows that Congress will still listen to public pressure. In bad…
Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence went to Broadway last night to see Hamilton. The cast ended the show with a message for him and for all of our…
Yes, the man wearing this shirt at a Trump rally in Minnesota Sunday is deplorable: Journalism is a vital First Amendment activity that has always protected us…
Last night I posted Augustana Democrat Spencer O’Hara’s report that members of the Augustana Republicans shouted “Build a wall” and “Lock her up” from their Viking…
Bob Newland makes minor trouble again. On Facebook, the longtime Libertarian posts his early ballot, showing that he voted for the Johnson-Weld Presidential ticket, then voted Democratic for everything…
In publishing evidence that Donald Trump claimed losses so big in 1995 that he could have skipped paying income taxes for eighteen years, the New York Times…