Consider this search-and-seizure scenario: So a 14-year-old girl calls the cops around 7 p.m. to report her mom for drunk driving. Daughter isn’t with mom;…
Tag: Fourth Amendment
Judge Charles Kornmann’s effort to hold leaders of the United States Marshals Service accountable for refusing to comply with his Court’s coronavirus vaccination rules in…
In Governor Kristi Noem’s world, Indian tribes can’t stop motorists on their sovereign territory to make sure they aren’t bringing coronavirus into their communities, but…
Governor Kristi Noem gets to host her first Christmas at the Capitol this year. Our Snow Queen Governor has made sure she’s gotten her holy…
Kristi Noem didn’t get to fence in the Governor’s Mansion, but she’s doing something worse: she’s locking own the Capitol. She already shut the grand…
House Bill 1061 poses a due-process quandary for conservatives. Representative Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) offers this measure to allow victims of sexual assault to ask the…
In another small victory for the Fourth Amendment, the South Dakota Supreme Court reversed a conviction for meth possession because Rapid City police improperly seized…
Drunk idiots are good for something. A drunk driver whose blood test showed a 0.289% blood alcohol content may have helped me make the case…
In Senate State Affairs Wednesday, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) showed both his racism and his lack of understanding of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by…
I get where Senator Deb Soholt is coming from in proposing Senate Bill 105. But I can’t accept her intrusion on the Fourth Amendment. The…