This was flying over the capital building in Pierre this morning (Photo, Dana Ferguson, Argus Leader). The one thing I have found humorous about the 51% thingy is the Republicans claiming since it was so close, it could not have been correct. Could we say the same thing about the margin between Thune and Daschle?
It’s not the muslims. Trump grounded them.
Well, then based on the “House of Lords” Republican logic in Pierre, President Trump should tread lightly given that he only won his election through the electoral college and lost the popular vote to Hillary by 2.9 million votes….
What do the “Lords” in Pierre say about that?
Or Thune vs Johnson. Similar results. The important thing is that it has been found to be unconstitutional and the legislature is stepping up to pass legislation that will pass the constitutional court process. The people who brought IM 22 to the people were told that there were serious problem with their initiative but they wanted to grandstand about it rather than actually do anything.
Then why not let the Supreme Court decide? As far as I am concerned, the Legislature is NOT qualified to make those decisions, and they have better things to do, like handing out chastity belts to the legislators during the session.
If the “Lords” in Pierre are going to have the political gall to change IM 22, like they did with the minimum wage initiative a few years ago, then why did they even need to challenge it in the courts?
I’ll answer that question, because in the meantime the “Lords” wanted to make sure they could keep getting free donuts and other things from lobbyist to stuff in their mouths and pockets….
The “Lords”” strategy was not to test the constitutionality of law actually , since that has yet to have been determined by the Supreme Court, rather their strategy so far is merely a political stunt to have business as usual, or should we say donuts as usual, which then gives them the breathing room (between donuts) to invoke emergency legislation, which would make a Supreme Court decision moot, when decided, so that they could carry on with their antics as usual with no referendum “checks and balance” for the Commoners to respond with… A cute, or should I say acute tactic, but also a very disingenuous one as well with an air of peerage attitude… And now you know why I call them the “Lords.”
so you would have the legislature do nothing- the law stays in limbo until the state supreme court declares it unconstitutional and there are no ethic laws passed by the legislature this year we will be right where we were before IM 22 and two more years down the road
YES! We have never had ethics laws to begin with, I don’t think waiting 1 more year would kill us. Legislators writing their own ethics laws is silly.
Matt, you raise a good point. Accept that this paradox, which you have identified, was all caused by the Republican lawsuit itself.
And the Republicans did this so that they could keep their donuts in the meantime, and used with assumed confidence a lower court decision to give them political cover so that they could have business as usual….
A lower court decision I must say, with all due respect, which was handed down by a past partisan who once served as a Republican AG and gubernatorial candidate… The fix was in, I would allege…. I am sorry, I think it was, in my opinion….
There’s something really wrong constitutionally when an organized faction pays to fly banners over Pierre. Legislators wear blinders. They can’t see except for a Marxist path.
Are you representatives or fascist extremists?