SD Attorney General Marty Jackley signals support for Ten Commandments displays in schoolsLink to Full ArticleArgus Leader - Morgan Matzen, Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Published 13 January 2025
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Monday he supports a Louisiana law that's similar to a proposed South Dakota bill to require the display and curricular inclusion of the Ten Commandments in schools.
Jackley, and 17 other attorneys general, signed an amicus brief showing support for the law requiring all K-12 schools and state universities display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. A federal district court has blocked the law from taking effect after the Louisiana Legislature and governor signed the law. The attorneys general filed their brief in late December.
Jackley's spokesman Tony Mangan said while Jackley supports the concept of the Ten Commandments display in public schools for the releases mentioned in the release, he hasn't yet reviewed South Dakota's version of the bill.
First-term Republican Sen. John Carley, from Piedmont, sponsored Senate Bill 51 last week. Its first hearing isn't yet scheduled. The legislative session begins Tuesday.-----------------------
My objection to this has nothing to do with religion, although I question what happened to what was once referred to as the "separation of Church and State'.
My objection is instead, that once again, State Government officials in South Dakota are more concerned with issues outside of their jurisdiction.
During the COVID pandemic, while South Dakota businesses were closing up (some permanently), and citizens were out of work and hurting financially, our Governor, Kristi Noem, was busy traveling all over the country to various states to Trump rallies. She denied her citizens COVID Relief Funds while making sure that her family received $500,000 of the same.
Governor Kristi Noem ordered the State's National Guard troops to assist Texas with border patrol duties. It is none of South Dakota's business what Texas is doing, and there are plenty of things that the troops could do here at home, but her actions endeared her to Mr. Trump, who has since nominated her to Director of Homeland Security, where she will oversee Customs & Immigration and Border Security at the Federal level.
Now, we have Marty Jackley expressing his opinion about an out-of-state law, while at the same time "
hasn't yet reviewed South Dakota's version of the bill." A law that no one asked for, by the way.
Maybe someday an elected official will actually represent the people who elected them.
Yeah, right.
