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.

The ACLU of South Dakota opposed House Bill 1116, which passed, and House Bill 1125, which was tabled. Both bills violate First Amendment protections and provoke a broader cultural suppression of LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit people.

House Bill 1080 is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender South Dakotans, their families and their medical providers.

House Bill 1080 would allow the government to intervene in private medical decisions, prohibiting doctors from providing life-saving gender-affirming health care to transgender South Dakotans.

House Bill 1163 was a blatant attempt at censorship, pure and simple.