So much for Indian-White reconciliation. Earlier this month Judge Karen Schreier dismissed Brooks v. Gant, an Indian voting-rights lawsuit brought by residents of the Pine Ridge reservation. The dismissal came only because the filing of the lawsuit forced Secretary of…
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Theocracy marches on: South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is throwing in with 23 other AGs with a Christian persecution complex to advocate further violation of the separation between church and state: Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that South Dakota…
Attorney General Marty Jackley wrote to Senator Stanford Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) yesterday. AG Jackley confirmed that the Legislature can impeach Secretary of State Jason Gant, but he said there's no criminal reason to do so. In response to Senator Adelstein's…
Shortly before the Secretary of State Jason Gant announced the resignation of his politically toxic deputy Pat Powers, Senator Stan Adelstein released for public reading the following letter, which he sent to Attorney General Marty Jackley yesterday, July 5. The…
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley strives mightily to spin some consolation out of yesterday's crushing defeat of his Tea Party intentions. In his press release on the Supreme Court's general rejection of his lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act,…
In May, State Representative Frank Kloucek and Democratic colleagues requested an official attorney general's opinion on the cuts to the state's Cooperative Extension Service. Specifically, Rep. Kloucek et al. argued that the Extension cuts violate the 1862 Morrill Land Grant…