We don’t vote on Amendment C, née House Joint Resolution 5003, until next June, but evidently the big business and big political interests who hate…
Tag: Jon Hansen
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) doesn’t know jack about constitutional law, but at least he and his pal Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) know how to…
Republicans don’t want to count all the people in America, but South Dakota Republicans want to make sure every embryo counts. House Bill 1248, sponsored…
Say, here’s a wrinkle I didn’t notice on my first pass through House Joint Resolution 5003, Representative Jon Hansen’s latest chipping-away at our initiative rights.…
In 2018, Senator Jim Bolin tried to hamstring our power to write our own laws by placing on the ballot Amendment X, which would have…
On Monday, I wrote about the draft issue memorandum the Legislative Research Council produced on surrogacy laws. I noted that anti-surrogacy, anti-LGBT, anti-family Representative Jon…
Senate Bill 180, the revised registry and badging scheme for paid ballot question petition circulators, passed House Local Government on Tuesday with one significant amendment.…
Two really funny things happened yesterday with regards to the South Dakota Republican Party’s effort to restrict your initiative and referendum rights. First, the Attorney…
Bring back bad legislators, bring back bad ideas…. Jon Hansen left the Legislature in 2013 to go to law school. Since he’s come back to…