USD art professor Michael Hook is taking the Board of Regents to court. Hook makes the politically radical but judicially unsurprising claim that the Regents…
Tag: First Amendment
“Fuck Charlie Kirk. He was a hate-spreading Nazi.” Is that really a fire-able statement? The South Dakota Board of Regents thinks so. USD art professor…
Democracy isn’t dead yet. In a significant victory for South Dakotans’ right to make their own laws, U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler ruled that…
In the ongoing effort to establish Christian nationalism as America’s official religion, the Trump Administration Monday issued a memorandum exhorting department and agency heads to…
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,…
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…