When you’ve pled guilty to trying to steal a change machine from a car wash, and you have a long criminal record, and the judge…
Tag: law
Victimless Crime Amendment Also Blocks Prosecution of Drug Abuse, Child Abuse, Theft, Terrorist Plots… With five working days left during which legislators and committees can…
In another little noodly bill, some Republicans want to increase the money you can take out of your neighbor’s pocket if you beat your neighbor…
Attorney General Marty Jackley issued an official opinion today contending that the State-Tribal Relations Committee does not have subpoena power. Since I wanted the State-Tribal…
Not all Democrats are afraid to test Legislative committees’ authority to subpoena witnesses to investigate the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal. Rep. Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton) offered a…
Our discussion of the NAIA tournament move to Sioux Falls and the national anthem absolutism that chased it here elicited a reference to the stance of…
James Nord checks in with South Dakota’s initiative petitioners and gets both Melissa Mentele and G. Mark Mickelson to cite 15,000 as their current signature…
The campaign finance draft legislation I was looking for last week is finally up on the Government Accountability Task Force’s website, just in time for…
After losing in circuit court last month, the pharmaceutical industry is asking the South Dakota Supreme Court to hear their argument that Attorney General Marty…