Evidently eager for more beatings in court, the state yesterday filed its notice of appeal to the Eighth Circuit over its loss this summer over…
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Governor Larry Rhoden and Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen, who led the Governor’s prison refit study committee, scored a big policy and political victory yesterday as…
Demonstrating the depth of his legal acumen (the phrase “short dipstick” comes to mind), Speaker Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) responds to U.S. District Court Judge…
Democracy isn’t dead yet. In a significant victory for South Dakotans’ right to make their own laws, U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler ruled that…
One of the arguments Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) has made in his ongoing war against initiative and referendum is that he…
Republican gubernatorial candidate and Speaker of the House Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) testified for the defense in federal court on Monday, June 23, in the…
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,…
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…
Representative Jon Hansen takes the climate-change-denier position that we should just release all the carbon dioxide we want and let plants eat it. Actual scientists…