In the years since the federal right to abortion was struck down by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority in 2022, no measure seeking to protect abortion (or to reject new restrictions) had ever lost at the ballot box. That winning streak ended on Tuesday, as Amendment 4, which would have …
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Republican governors have made a show of deploying National Guard troops to the southern border to block the Biden administration from removing razor wire that Texas has laid out to repel and harm migrants — in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling. On Sunday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) …
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Former president Donald Trump made his first public appearance at a rally on Friday since he was criminally indictedover charges to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election. Appearing at a GOP event in South Dakota, Gov. Kristi Noem endorsed Trump, and established herself as a surrogate to his run for …
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A South Dakota State Representative quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech voicing her support for South Dakota House Bill 1080. The proposed legislation would prohibit virtually any form of gender affirming care for transgender individuals until they reach the age of 18. The bill, one of a slew …
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A candidate for South Dakota’s House of Representatives has been arrested and charged with sexual assault days after losing his election … to his own mother. Records show that Bud Marty May was brought into the Pennington County Jail on Nov. 13 on a charge of second-degree rape by way …
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