Yeah, I’ve got a bee in my bonnet. Petitions, public participation, personhood, and Legislative history and intent—how could I not get fired up? On Wednesday,…
Tag: law
Mere days after the South Dakota Board of Elections said that state law forbids rule-making bodies from considering petitions proposed by members of the public,…
The South Dakota Board of Elections found a way to trash a petition for changes to voter registration rules without ruling on the merits of…
Nonprofit watchdog Campaign for Accountability finds that three South Dakota “crisis pregnancy centers”—Zoecare in Wagner, Haven Center in Watertown, and Bella in Spearfish—are among 100…
The rich guys running the non-profit Sioux Empire Betterment Foundation and its Sioux Falls July 4th parade committee appear to be reading the restriction on…
Trump’s triumphal arch is illegal, say six members of Congress in a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: “We oppose this project in the strongest…
Dominik Dausch of The Dakota Scout finds that Republican Senator Tamara Grove, who represents District 26 in central South Dakota from her post office box…
Secretary of State Monae Johnson is not good at reading election law. As I noted Wednesday, SOS Johnson is incorrectly telling people circulating referendum petitions…
It’s bad enough that Secretary of State Monae Johnson is delaying early voting by failing to deliver official ballots on time. Now she may be…
South Dakota Searchlight gets Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen to remind us how the Governor and Legislature get by with breaking the Janklow-era law that requires…