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.…
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Jeffrey Keith Peters is a retired Denver-area optometrist who, according to his Facebook page, went to school in Stickney and at SDSU and now lives…
Hey, this is new to me! Senate State Affairs has proposed Senate Bill 186, a measure that amends not only state law but administrative rules…
You’ve seen my brief stab at explaining the ills of Senate Bill 157, Governor Kristi Noem’s factory feedlot “streamlining” bill. Now let’s hear from a…
Senate Bill 180, Senator Jim Stalzer’s retread of Representative Jon Hansen’s circulator registry and badges, was supposed to get a hearing in Senate Local Government…
The House yesterday voted 58–11 for House Bill 1055, a seemingly harmless little bill from the Secretary of State that changes the timeframe for terminating…
Legislating isn’t all fun and games and saving the Republic. Sometimes it’s just dreary updating of technical language. Possibly the most boring committee hearings of…
“It’s a bad day for the rule of law in South Dakota,” whimpers Representative Jon Hansen, as if, as Trumpists like to claim, a Constitutional exercise of checks and balances against overreach by one branch of government is really some extralegal coup.
The U.S. District Court ruling Friday overturning Hansen’s 2019 House Bill 1094 did make for a bad day, not for the rule of law, but for the unchecked rule of lawmakers like Hansen who crave absolute power and hold in contempt the voters and their First Amendment rights.
[I proceed now into heavy quoting of a legal ruling, which itself is rife with quotes within quotes and complicated legal citations. I omit the judge’s internal citations and simply put any text I take from the ruling in quote marks (for short passages) or blockquotes (for longer passages). To see whether the words come from Judge Kornmann or from cases he cited, please see his original document.]
Judge Charles Kornmann makes clear from the first page of his ruling in SD Voice v. Noem II that he acts with the utmost respect for the law and the proper place of the judiciary in evaluating it:
Speaking of the budget and the Legislature’s legal obligation to increase teacher pay 2% in Fiscal Year 2021, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells the Aberdeen…
Yankton County faces a secession movement from four townships making up the northeastern quarter-plus of the county. Continuing the farm-entitlement mindset, farmers in Mayfield, Turkey…