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To clarify, the 8th circuit includes:

- Arkansas

- Iowa

- Minnesota

- Missouri

- Nebraska

- North Dakota

- South Dakota

South Dakota legislators recently exercised a State of Emergency to overrule an anti-corruption bill voted in by its constituents: http://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/south-dakota-republicans-sta...

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These states are also among the most conservative when it comes to gun rights in defense of freedom against a tyrannical government. Upside-down world we live in.

apparently they have a lot of experience with tyrannical government.

It's the people that demand the gun rights against the government whose state officials vote themselves "protection" from being filmed in public.

Absolutely. Look at marijuana. Most people I meet that oppose legalization also oppose the government defining their moral values. It's backwards.

It should be pointed out the judges are federal appointments and not local people.

> judges are federal appointments

True

> ...and not local people

Generally false.

District and Circuit Court judges are very often local people and historically the appointments are strongly influenced by the Senators in the area served (particularly, but not exclusively, when they share a party with the President.)

These states have always actively tried to impede the advancement of American society so it doesn't surprise me to see them taking such a backwards stance

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