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.…
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South Dakota Codified Law 12-18-6.1 requires South Dakotans to present a photo identification in order to vote. Those of us who find the photo-ID requirement odious have the option under SDCL 12-18-6.2 of signing an affadavit swearing we are who…
Our Christmas driving took us across the Pine Ridge Reservation, where we had the chance to listen to KILI Radio, possibly the most interesting and most local radio station in South Dakota. On Friday morning, a lively and occasionally hilarious…
It must hurt to be Tea Party right now. Just a couple months old, the Occupy Wall Street movement is steering public discourse at least as effectively as the Tea Party did in its nascent months. (Quick Google check: "Occupy…
The freedom-, law-, and woman-loving blogosphere has raised quite a ruckus over the 72-hour waiting period South Dakota wants to impose on women seeking abortions, a law quite sensibly blocked Thursday by Judge Karen Schreier. Imagine the outcry if the…
Looks like my wife and several thousand South Dakota women like her do not lose autonomy over their medical decisions tomorrow after all! Today U.S. District Court Chief Judge Karen Schreier blocked the enactment of House Bill 1217, the South…
In the "never hurts to ask" department, Ron Volesky, one of my favorite liberal Democrats, has asked conservative Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard to appoint him to the South Dakota Supreme Court. Volesky has an interview June 20. Volesky's resume: Volesky…