At least two groups are gathering to protest coronavirus vaccine mandates in Pierre during the Special Sessions Monday and Tuesday. One group of anti-social anti-scientists,…
Tag: First Amendment
South Dakota democracy still has a fighting chance in federal court. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann denied the state’s request that he stay his…
One reason Kristi Noem loses court cases is that she doesn’t really understand the First Amendment. On her way out the door to another out-of-state…
The previous occupant of the White House is asking a federal court in Florida to force Twitter to allow him to resume posting his baloney…
The state hasn’t given up the fight to suppress voter rights by suppressing the circulation of ballot question petitions. Ten days after Judge Lawrence Piersol…
In its famous Tinker v. Des Moines decision in 1969, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the right of five students to wear black armbands to school…
A year and a half ago, when Republican legislators scrambled to come up with a replacement for their petition circulator registry scheme that I destroyed…
In her weekly propaganda column, Governor Kristi Noem appeals to the phallus-y absolutism of the Second Amendment: The Constitution doesn’t always use plain language, but…
In another attack on the integrity of Northern State University and other-oriented public behavior, a letter to the editor in my local Monday paper claims…
In my conversation with Amy Scott-Stoltz Sunday about how to circulate ballot question petitions, I emphasized that volunteer circulators do not have to register with the…