Governor Kristi Noem is using Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom and South Dakota Highway Patrol Colonel Rick Miller as plaintiff-pawns in a crazy ploy to…
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In their misfiled, mislabeled “election contest,” the chosen tools of Governor Kristi Noem‘s effort to overturn Amendment A, the marijuana legalization that the voters and…
Sheriff Kevin Thom and South Dakota Highway Patrol Colonel Rick Miller may be barking up the wrong legal tree in their taxpayer-funded court challenge to…
Before I tear into the core legal arguments, I want to note the weird plaintiffery going on with the election contest Pennington County Sheriff Kevin…
On Thursday, the precious and prescient South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry David Owen told attendees of his pre-legislative talk that someone might challenge…
Rep. Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) tried to outlaw surrogacy agreements last year, likely as a trick to close another avenue to equality and parenthood for…
The Legislature’s Executive Board is meeting today and tomorrow. Among the fun items on their agenda is an issue memorandum from the Legislative Research Council…
Some hothead from Maine got arrested for “criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon disorderly conduct” today in Bangor for brandishing a wooden baton and a…
Among the details of Kristi Noem’s deliberately PDF’d, small-fonted, non-machine-searchable October 19 campaign finance report is this unusual line, offered in several places in lieu…
Evidently to be a true Trumpist, Governor Kristi Noem also has to practice breaking the law. She defied New Hampshire’s travel restrictions on us cootified…