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…
Tag: First Amendment
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…
…And We Still Need a Ruling on Petition Deadlines! This news will be no comfort to the family of Joe Boever and all South Dakotans…
That Dakota Dunes flag bill whose title cropped up briefly on the LRC website last month has officially emerged as Senate Bill 81, Senator Jim Bolin’s…
Among my small pleasures this relaxing morning is clicking on the SDGOP spin blog’s link to right-wing-extremist platform Parler and getting the “404 Not Found”…
I seem to recall that, back in 2017, when the South Dakota Senate prepared to offend democracy by repealing Initiated Measure 22, there was some…