South Dakota’s governor, Kristi Noem, has proposed legislation seeking to uncover where out-of-state funds for pipeline protests come from and “cut them off at the source,” the Associated Press reports , adding Republican Noem also said she would set up a fund for extraordinary costs for law enforcement that usually accompany pipeline protests. “I’m a supporter of property rights, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. We should celebrate differences of opinion. But here in South Dakota, we will have the rule of law, because rioters do not control economic development in our state,” Noem said. In response to the news, the policy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota said such legislation may infringe of free speech. The legislation has been triggered by the problems of neighbor North Dakota, which had to deal with a months-long protest against the Dakota Access pipeline back in 2016 […]