The South Dakota Republican Party finished its three-day convention in Pierre, the state capital, on Saturday, 8 June. During the floor session on 7 June, a number of resolutions were passed by the ~245 delegates in attendance. One of those condemned the ongoing practice of Democrat lawfare this is outright election interference and an attack on political speech rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Here is that resolution in its entirety:
Resolution Summary: The South Dakota Republican Party condemns and opposes the political lawfare being practiced by the Democrat Party against Republican candidates, Republican electors, and rank-and-file Republicans for entirely political purposes in violation of rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, as conveyed in the following resolution:
The South Dakota Republican Party condemns and opposes the political lawfare being practiced by the Democrat Party against Republican candidates, Republican electors, and rank-and-file Republicans in violation of rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as set forth below:
WHEREAS lawfare is defined as s the use of the law and legal proceedings to accomplish what otherwise might require traditional political means, i.e., through the expression of the “will of the people” via their elected representatives in the US constitutional Republic; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party has resorted to lawfare to bypass the deliberative legislative process through judicial fiat in order to create laws not supported by the majority of Republicans, e.g., “legalization” (sic) of abortion, racism disguised as “affirmative action” (sic), and the rights of children to “gender-affirming care” (sic); and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party has accelerated the use of lawfare to intimidate or hinder their Republican opponents and supporters; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party perpetrated an unprecedented three-year investigation of a known hoax that culminated in a partisan impeachment of a sitting US president; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party used that faux investigation to political gain control of the US House of Representatives in 2018; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party perpetrated a second impeachment of that same president on the basis of a legitimate phone call to a foreign leader; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party used that second impeachment process (lawfare) to interfere with the 2020 presidential election on behalf of their presidential candidate; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party has weaponized the Dept of Justice to violate the Sixth Amendment right of Americans to a speedy trial for their unarmed protesting the outcome of the 2020 election, and many of whom were guilty of nothing more serious than the misdemeanor of criminal trespass of the US Capitol; and
WHEREAS the Democrat Party has used lawfare to intimidate Republican electors in Michigan and other states; and
WHEREAS the Biden administration took the unprecedented action to raid a former president’s residence in an ongoing effort to interfere with the 2024 election process and suppress the constitutionally-guaranteed political speech of that president’s supporters; and
WHEREAS Democrat prosecutors in several states, in a direct example of election interference, have taken unprecedented actions to indict a former US president AFTER the declaration of his candidacy, who is the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 nomination by an overwhelming margin [a clear attempt to suppress political speech guaranteed under the First Amendment]; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the South Dakota Republican Party condemns and opposes the political lawfare being practiced by the Democrat Party against Republican candidates, Republican electors, Republican lawyers, and rank-and-file Republicans in violation of rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the South Dakota Republican Party calls upon the Chairman to transmit this resolution to Senator John Thune, Senator Mike Rounds, Congressman Dusty Johnson, Attorney General Marty Jackley, and US Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as to the Republican National Committee.
Signed,
The South Dakota Republican Party
The end.