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…
Tag: First Amendment
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…
Petitioners in Atlanta seeking to put a massive police training center (known as “Cop City”) to a public vote say they’ve collected over 100,000 voter…
Lawrence County appears to agree with Dakotans for Health that citizens have a right to discuss and circulate petitions at the courthouse door. Less than…
Federal Judge Roberto Lange has given Dakotans for Health and other practitioners of democracy two more weeks to circulate petitions freely in front of the…
In May, when Dakotans for Health sued the Minnehaha County Commission and Auditor Leah Anderson for imposing its new policy banning petition circulators from standing…
Just one week after beating Minnehaha County’s restrictive petition policy in federal court, ballot question committee Dakotans for Health is turning its legal fire on…
On May 2, the Minnehaha County Commission approved a new policy brought by new county auditor and longtime anti-abortion activist Leah Anderson banning First Amendment…
Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig write in Governing how artificial intelligence could manipulate voters in 2024 and produce a President with no genuine democratic mandate: Imagine…
After hearing evidence and arguments Friday in Dakotans for Health’s lawsuit against Minnehaha County’s new restrictions on petitioning and other First Amendment activity outside the…