JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2021
There is a controversy developing in North and South Dakota where The Standing Rock Sioux tribe is prioritizing speakers of its native languages for its COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Federal and state laws do apply on Indian reservations despite their status as self-regulating states.
JonathanTurley
JULY 18, 2022
Such changes are like the shifting of tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the legal lithosphere. In the law, the adjustment can take years, as collateral doctrines and applications shake out along new fault lines. For example, South Dakota Gov. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 11, 2022
But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. Ginsburg was not the only one dismissive of these theories.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 27, 2022
As this matter returns to the states, it is striking to consider what has changed legally and socially in the past 50 years. Roughly 16 states are poised or expected to make abortion illegal immediately under so-called trigger laws. South Dakota, Louisiana and Kentucky have immediate prohibitions that will come into effect.
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