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…
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Governor Kristi Noem said a lot on Twitter and on second-tier wingnut media this week. Remarkably, she did not say anything about citizens launching a…
Yesterday, Attorney General Marty Jackley released his final revised version of his official title and explanation for the proposed initiated amendment to strike the single-subject…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has released a profoundly straightforward and downright boring draft explanation of the marijuana lobby’s proposed initiative to remove the single-subject rule…
Plus: Freedom Caucus Frets New Definition of Money Favoring Government Digital Currency! House Bill 1193 offers 109 sections that print to 117 pages of changes to…
Speaking of the single-subject rule, Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) is doing a little more hacking of citizens’ right to amend their constitution with House Bill…
In 2018, South Dakota voters incorrectly and anti-democratically approved Amendment Z, the single-subject rule for proposed constitutional amendments. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem and the…
Bubbling on out swift Senate’s stove is Senate Bill 52, an extensive revision of laws related to prisons, sentencing, executions, and other matters. The Department…
Stu Whitney’s report on Mark Vargo’s problematic declaration that the proposed initiative to repeal the state’s sales tax on food also applies to municipalities also…
…But Bong Sales Kosher! As one of my anonymous correspondents noted earlier this week, Initiated Measure 27 will not legalize the sale of marijuana in…