Supreme Court overrules Senate who forgets their place. The Lt. Governor is allowed to break ties.

17 thoughts on “Supreme Court overrules Senate who forgets their place. The Lt. Governor is allowed to break ties.”

1. Who were the morons in the senate that thought the Lt didn’t have that authority?

   1. Whomever they are ought to be booted from office. The state constitution is pretty clear and if that’s not understood, they need to leave.

      1. This was just that puffed ruddy faced fellow in the Senate trying to jostle for more power and poke a stick in the eye of the Governor. The ruddy guy has grudges from years ago.

         grudznick knows grudges.

   2. Some real “constitutional conservatives” questioned it. That term is turning into an oxymoron with a few Senators.

   3. This feels like another attempt by former Speaker Haugaard to involve himself in the affairs of the Senate. Having attended law school in Washington state, he obviously never studied the South Dakota Constitution in law school. Thus the bizarre legal arguments he has made concerning the SD legislature.

      1. I’m told it was a different attorney who prepared the brief for the Senate.

2. I can understand the legislature wanting to claw back some power after Kristi the Terrible’s reign. But this was not the place to do it. A cursory reading of the state constitution should have been suficient for Karr.

   1. Karr reading is the funniest line I’ve read so far today!

3. The fat, half-literate goblin from Sioux Falls is an embarrassment.

   1. The Supreme Court hewed through Karr’s contention as a keen elven blade cleaves the fat of a goblin, leaving naught but the bare truth standing in its wake.

   2. stop…

4. Poor Chris always looks like he’s about ready to blow a gasket and stroke out.

5. Chris looks like Toby Doeden.

6. I did enjoy Lt. Gov’s history lesson on the State Constitutional Convention. Then the history of this power he gave in the Senate in response to this issue. Anyone in the Capitol building should know better than to dare challenge Venhuizen on history.

7. To question the separation between the Executive and Legislative Branch is worthy one to be asked. The Executive Branch being able to make a final disposition on Legislative Statutes is a bit questionable.

   If everyone sat in Karr’s seat you would be asking the same thing,

   1. Only if everyone in Karr’s seat also happend to undergo a frontal lobotomy and forget everything beyond basic middle school civics.

8. Wait…Karr doesnt like something so he has to try and go around the rules? SHOCKING….. 😉

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