Senator Corey Brown (R-23/Gettysburg) does not lose gracefully. His Senate Bill 166 was a spiteful and crassly political ploy to weaken voters' right to legislate via initiative and referendum. The press blasted him, a variety of citizens and groups rose…
Posts tagged as “Constitution”
Conservatives in the South Dakota Legislature are agitating to change the United States Constitution while limiting our ability to make such changes. Seeking to amend the highest law of the land and limiting debate and voting seems the opposite of…
Mr. Powers appears to oppose a proposal to require South Dakota students to pass a civics test to graduate high school. He cloaks his blog post on the topic in comment fishing ambivalence (he never closes a rant against Kathy…
The Republican majority in the South Dakota Legislature is enjoying its power this week, kicking two Democrats out of Pierre. They've refused to allow the Legislature's Democrats to hire Ann Tornberg as their Senate caucus secretary and Kathy Tyler as…
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…
In today's exercise in faux patrio-piety, Rep. Hal Wick presented House Bill 1150, to require all K-12 students in South Dakota to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily, to House State Affairs this morning. Rep. Wick said his bill came…
This is how Republicans rebrand themselves to win the youth vote: by ratifying a Constitutional Amendment that has been law since the Nixon era. The 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, passed Congress in March 1971.…
The fantasy-grand jury league continues its game-playing around the state. Stephanie Strong sends the media an update implying that her fellow vigilante-litigationists are using as a guide the tactics of a New York group that pretends to be the "Unified…