Mike Mueller and Julie-Frye-Mueller are trying to replace property tax with a retail transaction tax because, the cons contend, property tax is “immoral“: Property Taxes…
Tag: initiative
Three weeks ago, Northern Plains News reported that Boobgate stars Mike Mueller and Julie Frye-Mueller and their fellow radical Republican Matt Smith are promoting an…
The 2025 Legislature approved seven bills and one resolution affecting the initiative and referendum process. Governor Larry Rhoden vetoed the single absolute worst of those…
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,…
Whether or not Dakotans for Health prevails in its legal battle to stop the state from moving the initiative petition deadline from the first Tuesday…
Dakotans for Health and the State of South Dakota faced off in federal court Monday as U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler heard arguments over…
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…
First a novel, now a paper in the South Dakota Law Review! My friend Reynold Nesiba emailed me back in January: “Of all of the…
The United Nations must think that petition circulating in South Dakota to put Roe v. Wade-era abortion rights in the state constitution is a good idea.…
South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center poll 500 voters and find that, if we voted today, the initiated amendment to restore Roe v.…