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South Dakota
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 12 stories to South Dakota since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from South Dakota.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In South Dakota
10 storiesOglala Sioux Tribe demands release of three tribal members held at ICE facility in Minneapolis, says U.S. citizens by statute are "categorically outside immigration jurisdiction."
Detained at homeless encampment since Friday
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
South Dakota governor signs law requiring proof of citizenship for new voter registrations, effective immediately before the June primary.
Kansas version blocked 30,000 legal voters
Internal ICE documents reveal plans for a privately run detention network spanning Minnesota and four neighboring states, with capacity to transfer 1,000 detainees up to 400 miles.
Contract between $20 and $50 million
ACLU trains volunteer poll observers across South Dakota as a "deterrent" after Trump says he doesn't "rule anything out" on an election emergency.
New law lets voters challenge citizenship
Trump says all 50 states joined most-favored-nation Medicaid drug pricing that "alone should win us the midterms," as experts say Medicaid patients already pay little.
$64.3 billion savings go to governments
Six CISA career staffers suspended after acting director failed polygraph he pushed to take despite being told he didn't need the access.
Nearly one-third of staff gone since January
South Dakota opens seventh prison death investigation since February as inmate dies from suspected overdose, two previous cases resulted in charges against alleged drug suppliers.
Drug ring broke up in May
Firm run by DHS spokesperson's husband secretly receives money from $220 million ad contracts that bypassed competitive bidding by invoking border emergency.
DE shell company created days before contract
South Dakota committee advances bills to strip governor's sole control over economic development fund after Noem spent $9 million on ads starring herself and funded shooting range legislature denied three times.
$750,000 questionable credit card charges
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesFederal appeals court keeps South Dakota from enforcing a law that can jail people for advertising abortion pills while a free speech suit proceeds.
Suit cites sweatshirt as banned speech
Judge blocks Ohio's proof-of-citizenship voter registration rule before the October 5 midterm deadline, won by 2 civic groups who sued the state.
Provision could "obliterate" federal registration law
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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