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 are… 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 such… 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… 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 asylum… 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 Protection… 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 must… 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 efforts… 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 known… 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 kits… 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… 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 mask… 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% under… 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 Biden… 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 Missouri… Read More
State Government
Missouri AG sues nine more school districts over mask requirements(The Center Square) – Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Monday filed lawsuits against nine public school districts with mask requirements. Schmitt, a candidate for the seat of retiring… Read More
State Government
Major student loan lender enters multi-million dollar civil settlement with Missouri Attorney General Eric SchmittJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced earlier this month that one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers has entered a civil settlement agreement… Read More
State Government
Missouri AG sues St. Louis County one day after council approved mask mandate(The Center Square) – The day after the St. Louis County Council voted 4-3 along party lines to enact a mask mandate, Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a… Read More
National, State Government
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments from Missouri, Louisiana attorneys general against Biden’s CMS vaccine mandateWASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Supreme Court will hear opening oral arguments tomorrow morning for Missouri and Louisiana’s lawsuit against President Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal healthcare… Read More