Courts
Judge orders discovery phase in social media collusion lawsuit against Biden administration(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden, members of his administration and select social media companies must turn over documents and answer questions within the next 30 days during a… Read More
Pro-Life
‘Trigger law’ makes Missouri first to regulate abortion after overturning of Roe v. Wade(The Center Square) – Two of Missouri’s top Republican leaders took prescribed action Friday to regulate abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade. Missouri became… Read More
Courts
‘Egregiously wrong’ Roe v. Wade overturned; abortion returned to states to decide – and Missouri already hasThe overturning of Roe v. Wade Friday is a new day for the cause of life in America, largely an end to abortion in Missouri, and a cementing of… Read More
Big Tech, Free Speech, Social Media
Louisiana, Missouri AGs want judge to block Biden from pressing social media to censor free speech(The Center Square) – Two attorneys general filed for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against President Biden and other federal officials for allegedly colluding with social media… Read More
State Government
U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt announces Women for Schmitt coalitionSeveral notable conservative women this week endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt, forming an official Women for Schmitt coalition.The coalition “highlights that prominent Republican women from across Missouri… Read More
State Government
Missouri AG to investigate Missouri school districts over invasive student surveys, and the harvesting of the resultsProbing personal surveys discovered in at least one Missouri school district ask young students about their racial and gender identities, as well as their political preferences and views on… Read More
State Government
Why the Missouri AG could file charges in the 2018 duck boat crash – but not in this caseWhen can the Missouri attorney general step in to prosecute a case that a local prosecutor can’t or won’t? The answer is told in a tale of two… Read More
National
14 AGs sue Biden administration over changing asylum policy(The Center Square) – Fourteen attorneys general, led by Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri, have sued the Biden administration for altering immigration policies established by Congress related to the immigration… Read More
National
Federal judge blocks Biden administration from ending Title 42 immigration enforcement(The Center Square) – A federal judge in Louisiana on Monday blocked the Biden administration from ending the enforcement of a COVID-era policy that allowed U.S. Customs and Border… Read More
National, State Government
U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in lawsuit seeking reinstatement of Remain in Mexico policy(The Center Square) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt are heading to the U.S. Supreme Court again on Tuesday, arguing the Biden administration… Read More
National
AGs push back against ‘absurd effort’ to thwart border security efforts in Texas(The Center Square) – The attorneys general of Texas and Missouri are pushing back against what they say is another attempt by the Biden administration to thwart border security… Read More
National
Attorneys general coalition suing Biden administration over end of Title 42 grows to 21 states(The Center Square) – Ten days after three attorneys general sued the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over its plan to terminate the immigration-related public health authority… Read More
State Government
$5.5 million program clears backlog of untested sexual assault kits in Missouri(The Center Square) – Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today the completion of a $5.5 million program clearing a backlog of 3,298 untested, reported sexual assault… Read More
National, State Government
Missouri and Kansas join 19 other states in suing to end the Biden administration’s mask mandates on public transportationAttorneys general for Missouri and Kansas Tuesday joined a lawsuit with 19 other AGs seeking to end the Biden administration’s lingering mask mandate on planes, trains and buses. Read More
State Government
Missouri AG Schmitt settles ‘taxation by citation’ lawsuit against Moscow Mills(The Center Square) – The City of Moscow Mills, Missouri, denied any wrongdoing in a legal settlement with Attorney General Eric Schmitt regarding allegations of requiring traffic-ticket quotas. Read More
State Government
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has to sue to obtain public records? What chance do ordinary citizens have?The attorney general of the Show-Me State can’t get the Missouri School Boards’ Association to show him open records. That’s the assertion in a lawsuit filed by Missouri… Read More
State Government
St. Louis is Missouri’s last region with a mask mandate after county ends requirement(The Center Square) – St. Louis County ended its COVID-19 mask mandate this week, leaving the City of St. Louis as the only large city in Missouri with a… Read More
State Government
Community leaders grateful, watchful of Missouri’s $458 million opioid settlement(The Center Square) – Missouri’s health and social service agencies will get 60% of an estimated $458 million opioid settlement, leaving the state’s 114 counties with the remaining 40%… Read More
National, State Government
Texas and Missouri team up to fight illegal immigration, Biden administration(The Center Square) – The attorneys general of Texas and Missouri have been what some may consider an unlikely pair from non-neighboring states, teaming up on lawsuits against the… Read More
State Government
Missouri AG announces $500,000 Medicaid fraud settlement(The Center Square) – A residential treatment facility for children suffering from sexual behavior disorders and mental health illnesses agreed to a $504,250 civil settlement for fraudulently billing the… Read More