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If we want to improve public safety, we need to increase investment in rehabilitation and reentry, not incarceration. By eliminating the possibility of parole for entire groups of people who are incarcerated, there is no motivation for self-evaluation and genuine desire for change.
The government cannot limit expression just because any one person – or even a majority of a community – is offended by its content.
Injecting the state legislature into lawsuits that challenge the constitutionality of election laws threaten judicial independence by limiting courts’ power and injects politics into state judiciaries.
Our elected officials should be doing everything they can to encourage people to vote – not making it harder, as House Bill 1217 would do.
Who decides what is considered lewd and lascivious? Government officials cannot impose their personal moral values on others.
Ignoring the warnings of families, advocates, health care providers and transgender South Dakotans themselves, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed a law banning gender-affirming health care for any transgender person under 18.