South Dakota’s Constitution assigns the Lieutenant Governor to preside over the State Senate and cast tie-breaking votes, just as the United States Constitution assigns the…
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The Senate has published a redacted transcript of the testimony it took behind closed doors from the Legislative Research Council employee who accused Senator Julie…
An unnamed Legislative Research Council employee reported to her boss last week that Senator Julie Frye-Mueller walked into her Capitol office last week and told…
The momentum for permanently removing Julie Frye-Mueller from the Senate, if there was ever was any, is fizzling fast. On Monday, Frye-Mueller’s ally Senator Tom…
An eager and Legislatively attentive reader suggests that the Senators who voted to suspend Julie Frye-Mueller all violated South Dakota law. My reader cites SDCL 2-4-6…
Julie Frye-Mueller got herself suspended from the Senate by being stupid, gross, rude, and personally intrusive. After telling a Legislative Research Council employee that the…
When the Senate voted last June to convict lying killer Jason Ravnsborg and remove him from the Attorney General’s office, only a handful of Senators…
Republican Senators Casey Crabtree and Lee Schoenbeck are justifying the Senate’s suspension of Senator Julie-Frye-Mueller by likening it to the action any employer would take…
On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Casey Crabtree (R-8/Madison) announced that Senate leaders had chosen these nine Senators to serve on the Select Committee on Discipline…
In a move possibly as historic as its conviction and removal from office last June of killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, the South Dakota Senate…