Here’s how white colonizers operate: invade and steal indigenous land, force the indigenous people onto reservations controlled by the colonizers, lease that reservation land out…
Tag: South Dakota Supreme Court
Some Republican crybabies in the Legislature are mad that they can’t get more welfare checks from the government. Governor Kristi Noem is trying to give…
Another opportunity to hold someone, anyone, accountable for the GEAR UP scandal has collapsed. The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Alyssa Black Bear…
The South Dakota Supreme Court held a rules hearing yesterday on South Dakota’s silly law allowing certain civilians to carry guns in one of the…
Here’s a puzzler: a dog breaks free of its collar, bites a woman in a public park… and the folks in charge of the dog…
I don’t want to get in the habit of throwing stones at the Judicial Branch, since, as G. Mark Mickelson once told me, legal minds…
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, quite sensibly, that substantial compliance with petition law means doing what the law says. In Thompson v. Lynde, citizens…
In another small victory for the Fourth Amendment, the South Dakota Supreme Court reversed a conviction for meth possession because Rapid City police improperly seized…
Give someone too much guff on Facebook, and you can be busted for stalking, but you can still demand that the judge be specific about…
While they rebuffed a drunk driver’s effort to get off on a technicality, the South Dakota Supreme Court this week did do a favor for…