Marty Jackley, Jon Hansen, and the state of South Dakota lose again in their effort to stifle direct democracy. Yesterday on a 2–1 decision, a…
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The state of South Dakota lost yet another important First Amendment case Friday, as a federal judge told the state it can’t punish people for…
That’s not a mugshot; that’s Watertown lawyer Nancy Turbak Berry trying to avoid ending up in a mugshot at the Codington County jail come July…
USD art professor Michael Hook is taking the Board of Regents to court. Hook makes the politically radical but judicially unsurprising claim that the Regents…
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…
Federal Judge Roberto Lange has given Dakotans for Health and other practitioners of democracy two more weeks to circulate petitions freely in front of the…
Trumpist Big Liar Leah Anderson has only been on the job as Minnehaha County Auditor for a few weeks, and already she’s getting the county…
Senate State Affairs saved the state from another lawsuit yesterday. On an 8–1 vote, the committee killed House Bill 1200, Rep. Elizabeth May’s (R-27/Kyle) unconstitutional…
Rapid City attorney Jim Leach had to spend his St. Patrick’s Day in St. Paul, Minnesota, defending South Dakotans’ right to circulate ballot question petitions…
As I explained in September, killer and idiot Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg multiplicitously misread ballot question law when he delayed producing his official explanation of Amendment C…