Dakota Rural Action has sounded the alarm on House Bill 1048, which appears to take away important due process protections that South Dakota farmers have against unwarranted search and seizure of their property by Monsanto and other litigious Big Ag…
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The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and the Legislature are brewing up another scheme to favor Big Ag over small farmers. This time, they want to take away your property rights. Take a look at House Bill 1048. It's innocuously…
Rep. Mark Venner (R-24/Pierre) has twice sponsored legislation to test South Dakota's welfare recipients for drugs. S.D. Voices for Children policy expert Greg Boris says Rep. Venner will reintroduce that legislation during the 2013 session (assuming, of course, that Rep.…
Spread 'em: Supreme Court conservatives yesterday authorized prison officials to strip search anyone they arrest, no matter how minor the infraction. Albert Florence of New Jersey was arrested by a state trooper for an outstanding arrest warrant for failure to…
In positive Fourth Amendment news, the South Dakota Supreme Court this week reversed a drug conviction and declared that police need a warrant to use GPS transmitters to secretly track citizens. According to the unanimous ruling in South Dakota vs.…
Good grief: can we work anywhere anymore without giving up our basic Constitutional rights? Mr. Ehrisman alerts me to the Sioux Falls School District's effort to nullify the Fourth Amendment for its teachers: The local teachers union opposes a proposed…
Senate Bill 71, which would ban texting while driving, passed the South Dakota Senate Thursday, 26&ndash9. I noticed that Senator Angie Buhl (D-15/Sioux Falls) was in the Nay column alongside Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth). How could the great liberal hope…