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JAIL notes

Joel Rosenthal at Straight Talk has been doing a much better job than me at keeping an eye on the insane South Dakota Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.).

Perhaps the best was when South Dakota’s “JAILer-In-Chief,” Bill Stegmeier, appeared before the Senate State Affairs committee last Friday to testify against a resolution urging voters to […]

Hitting a nerve?

My posts here and here on the South Dakota JAIL initiative (PDF file) seem to be hitting a few nerves. In addition to some random comments on the blog, I’ve had e-mails directly from the founder/author of JAIL and the head of the Oklahoma JAIL project deploring my lack of understanding.

Mr. Chief JAILer tells […]

JAILers display their lack of understanding

Whether as part of their campaign or coincidence, the backers of the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (“JAIL”) measure made it into Dave Kranz’s Sunday column and launched a web site. As for the latter, this “blog buffoon” thanks the JAILers for the traffic they’ve sent this way by their comment on my prior post on […]

JAIL escapes from the asylum

Via the observant eye of SD War College comes word of an effort to JAIL the South Dakota judiciary. JAIL is the acronym of the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law, for which a petition (PDF format) is being ciruclated to place on the 2006 election ballot. All I can say is it looks a lot like […]