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…
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Federal Judge Karen Schreier has ruled South Dakota's gay marriage ban unconstitutional. In a ruling issued today, Judge Schreier finds in favor of Jennie and Nancy Rosenbrahn and five other South Dakota same-sex couples who sued the state for legal…
South Dakota lawyers got a raise from the state on January 1, just like our minimum wage workers. The state just raised the hourly rate for public defenders from $87 to $90. This order from Second Circuit Judge Larry Long…
Gordon Howie wakes this morning to draft a pardon letter for Annette Bosworth. To excuse the fake Senate candidate and multi-million-dollar fundraiser of 24 counts of felony perjury, Howie does not offer Bosworth any alibi. Instead, he accuses "many"—excuse me,…
The South Dakota Supreme Court stepped on the gas this month, issuing 15 of its 97 rulings for 2014. Among five released last Tuesday was State v. Mundy-Giedd, in which our justices unanimously rejected a drunk driver's attempt to nullify…
The Legislature has no bills in the hopper yet (Session doesn't open until January 13—ugh! I can't wait!), but Attorney General Marty Jackley has posted his legislative package for the new year. South Dakota's most popular Republican is riding his…
An eager reader suggests that, given the headlines surrounding the grand jury non-indictments of police officers involved in the deaths of suspects in Ferguson and Staten Island, we could benefit from a better understanding of how grand juries work. For…
An eager reader reminds me that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear King v. Burwell, the selfish conservative effort to sabotage of the premium tax credits offered under the Affordable Care Act. (Recall that King v. Burwell was the…