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Abortion ban signed into law

Within the last hour or so, Gov. Mike Rounds signed the restrictive abortion bill into law. Rounds issued a statementt on signing the bill.

Let the litigation and petition circulating begin.

Our task, of course, is to resolve the issue by constitutional measurement, free of emotion and of predilection.

Majority opinion, Roe v. Wade, […]

If you had any doubt

Via PP at South Dakota War College comes further proof — if any was needed — about the nature of the people behind the ludicrous South Dakota Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.).

Seems JAIL for Judges has its own Yahoo group. In a recent post titled “Rogue Miscreant Legislators,” JAIL advises that “formal NOTICE has […]

South Dakota’s female judges rule

An e-mail from a friend referred me to a news story on Lawdragon, a web site and quarterly magazine. The web site is billed as an “online searchable database where would-be consumers of legal services can get price and quality-of-service information about attorneys.” Each issue of the magazine, meanwhile, will feature “the Lawdragon 500 — […]

Referendum on abortion law?

The Strib notes there is talk of referring the new abortion law to a public vote. (Via Proud Liberal Journal). As the story notes, a referral would stop the law from taking effect until the vote, thereby producing the same result as a lawsuit seeking to block it.

The state Constitution guarantees the right of […]

Book Review: Cry from the Deep

In mid-August 2000 much of the world riveted its attention on the Barents Sea as reports came in of the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk. How did this happen? Were there survivors? Ramsey Flynn, an award-winning magazine journalist, was so drawn in that he knew he had to write about it.

Some 75 days […]