Golly, that July 4 parade float of President Barack Obama's someday library as an outhouse sure got some attention. Dan Peters and Todd Epp discussed it on KSOO this afternoon. The Nebraska Democratic Party says the float was among the…
Posts tagged as “First Amendment”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in McCullen v. Coakley yesterday that a Massachusetts law prohibiting free-speech activities within 35 feet of the entrance or driveway of an abortion clinic violates the First Amendment. The buffer zones serve the Commonwealth’s legitimate…
Gordon Howie asks me what I think of religion in government. I could just say, No, thank you. Instead, I say, Down with the state motto! Really, I think requiring all South Dakotans to labor under the motto "Under God…
The Chamberlain School Board finds discussion of its refusal to include a Native honor song in its graduation ceremony that in April it banned the subject from further discussion at its meetings, and maybe forever. The Chamberlain School Board has…
Friend of the blog Lanny Stricherz tells me that the Watertown Public Opinion was going to charge him $100 to print his letter to the editor, because it was a political letter. Apparently money really is speech... or, more accurately…
Our neighbors on the Miller School Board are busy mingling church and state: After the preliminaries of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and approving the meeting’s agenda, minutes from the March 10 and March 24 board meetings, monthly financial report…
The United States Supreme Court removed another safeguard against the influence of big money in elections. In a 5–4 ruling on McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the Court overturned caps on the aggregate limits on how much an individual can…
I thought Senate Health and Human Services' deadlock on House Bill 1162, the sex-selective-abortion ban, offered us some hope for rational restraint on anti-abortion laws in the South Dakota Legislature. I should have known better than to get optimistic. Concerns…