Marijuana advocates may be figuring out that if they want to use the initiative process to create better marijuana laws, they have to engage more…
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The Republican attack on South Dakotans’ right to make their own laws continues. After overturning voter-approved Amendment A on a stretched legal technicality, Governor Kristi…
Given Senator Steinhauer’s effort to coax the hospitals into withdrawing Amendment D, Dakotans for Health might want to keep circulating its Medicaid expansion initiative petition.…
When I took my deep drag yesterday morning on the Legislature’s big marijuana bong, I noted in passing that Representative Will Mortenson’s Republican friends (and…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) has been a willing participant in the Republican war on initiatives. In 2016, he led the SDGOP campaign against Amendment V,…
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
Governor Kristi Noem’s lawsuit against Amendment A barely survived her own legal recklessness. First, her lackey law enforcement plaintiffs misfiled their challenge to the constitutionalization…
Even paying circulators $22 an hour couldn’t get South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws 16,961 signatures in four slim weeks on its Plan B petition…
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…