Rep. Hansen led Bill ruled unconstitutional, Judge points out bill arose from his role as a litigator for his employer, Life Defense Fund

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It appears that State Representative Jon Hansen is having a bad weekend as the measure he led this last session, House Bill 1184, was ruled unconstitutional by the US District Court in a decision that was handed down this last Friday:

50829.Order.granting.permanent.injunction by Pat Powers

This action is a permanent injunction blocking its enforcement, unless the state appeals further. 

There’s a particular passage in the decision from Judge Camela Theeler (a Republican, before you start throwing stones) that got my attention:

The Court is not persuaded that the State has tied HB 1184’s nine month deadline to the State’s regulatory interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the initiative process. While the Legislature ultimately agreed to change the filing deadline to nine months, the impetus of HB 1184 was Speaker Hansen’s inability to have a trial on the challenge to Amendment G prior to the election. But Speaker Hansen was acting as an interested person on behalf of Life Defense Fund in that litigation, not as a government actor.

Read that on Page 14.

I know somewhere I’ve read about those concerns questioning exactly who Hansen is representing in Pierre …

Stay tuned.

16 thoughts on “Rep. Hansen led Bill ruled unconstitutional, Judge points out bill arose from his role as a litigator for his employer, Life Defense Fund”

  1. Whenever they call themselves constitutional conservatives be warned that these nutjobs will be will be the first to violate it and rip it to shreds.

  2. The SDGOP led legislature has been attacking direct democracy for many years now. Wasting a lot of time and public money. They apparently do not trust the state’s voters nor the concept of democracy.

    2. It’s because they’re the kind of conservative that wants to “conserve” power only to themselves.

    3. Some of these guys want to go back to the good ol’ days. You know… when voting was limited to white male protestant landowners.

      Only farmers and businessmen matter to them. Not so much the rest of us. Hmm… that might actually describe a lot of our elected officials.

  3. Just wait until HB 1052 gets challenged. Not only will it be found unconstitutional (dormant commerce clause and 14th amendment), it will cost this state a HUGE amount of money.

  4. Let’s not forget, Hansen has explored ways to prosecute women that go out of state for an abortion. At least that’s who Haugard said he was working with on the issue in a public forum.

  6. Hansen……

    FAITH
    FAMILY
    FREEDOM…………to chose if women decide to have an abortion.
    Mind your own business.

  7. The Hansen/Lemming cabal used RTL funds to promote their anti-pipeline candidates against several 100% RTL supporters.

    I was a yearly donor to RTL but no more.

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