Taking a picture of your ballot at the polls is fun and patriotic but illegal in South Dakota. Judge Paul Barbadoro of the U.S. District Court…
Tag: First Amendment
In a small victory for freedom of the press over corporate-ag fascism, a federal judge in Idaho has ruled that a 2014 law banning secret videotaping at agricultural…
Wealth is power. Inequality of wealth is inequality of power. The more wealth one has, the more people one can hire, and the more power one…
Last week, Attorney General Marty Jackley told public employees that they could choose not to issue marriage licenses to couples their religion tells them not to like.…
Dang: I should have run against Marty Jackley. South Dakota’s Attorney General apparently does not understand the Constitution, the separation of church and state, and need to…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. that license plates are government speech, not open public forums. The…
An Aberdeen veteran petitioning to refer the Legislature’s expanded definition of “veteran” to a public vote were expelled from Wylie Park by the city parks supervisor Saturday.…
We’ve plowed ground like this before, but the end of the school year brings my happy household another reminder of the porous separation of church and…
A group of Black Hills provocateurs plans to blaspheme marriage and Mount Rushmore… on a Sunday, no less! “Celebrate Marriage Equality”—we all know that’s code for…
Dang. As a petitioner and avid defender of the First Amendment, I want to go to war on the United States Postal Service for kicking…