The 2025 Legislature approved seven bills and one resolution affecting the initiative and referendum process. Governor Larry Rhoden vetoed the single absolute worst of those…
Tag: petitions
So if I already got the courts to say that any initiative petition deadline earlier than six months before the election violates the First Amendment,…
Whether or not Dakotans for Health prevails in its legal battle to stop the state from moving the initiative petition deadline from the first Tuesday…
Dakotans for Health and the State of South Dakota faced off in federal court Monday as U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler heard arguments over…
I had the pleasure of spending Monday in federal court in Rapid City. I testified as an expert witness on circulating ballot question petitions on…
Taxpayers continue to lose money on the state’s persistent violations of the First Amendment. The State of South Dakota has to pay the lawyers who…
Christofascists aren’t fighting democracy only in South Dakota. Crusaders for theocracy across the country are harassing petitioners to keep more Americans from voting to reinstate…
If you didn’t notice, I’m steamed over Minnehaha County’s banishment of petition circulators and other speakers from the busy space right in front of the…
Minnehaha County and ballot question committee Dakotans for Health have finally settled the lawsuit that resulted in an injunction of the county’s attempt to ban…
After a summer of waffling, the Lawrence County Commission last month finally rectified its Constitutional error and acknowledged that the First Amendment allows citizens to…