The Missouri Republican Party says a miscommunication caused 10,000 voters in the state to receive mailers with incorrect information about when their absentee ballots are due. Ray Bozarth is the party’s executive director. He said that there was a miscommunication ...
Read More »Missouri court lets voter photo-ID injunction stay in place
The Missouri Supreme Court has allowed an injunction to remain in place against part of the state’s voter photo-identification law. A Cole County judge issued an injunction earlier this month against a provision requiring people lacking photo identification to sign ...
Read More »Transgender rights lie in the hands of a state’s electorate
Nicole Talbot isn’t quite old enough to vote next month, however, she isn’t shy about urging Massachusetts voters to keep a state law that protects transgender people from discrimination, including the right to use restrooms and locker rooms that match ...
Read More »Money talks: Campaigns draw millions in ‘outsider’ cash
It’s been eight years since the U.S. Supreme Court declared that political spending is free speech. The decision eased the way for corporations, unions or nonprofits to spend massive amounts to support, or more often, denounce candidates in tight races. ...
Read More »Byrn denies defenders’ request for new judge
A judge has denied the Jackson County district defender’s request that a new judge hear her office’s concerns about public-defender caseloads. On Tuesday, Judge David M. Byrn issued an order in which he found Presiding Judge John Torrence’s September comments ...
Read More »Attorney’s role questioned in Jungerman civil case
Attorneys representing the man accused in the fatal shooting of Kansas City attorney Thomas Pickert have asked a judge to remove the lawyer appointed as receiver in a wrongful-death case brought by Pickert’s widow because he is also a Kansas ...
Read More »Missouri appeals on voter photo ID
Missouri’s top election official on Thursday said the state is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked enforcement of parts of a voter photo identification law, adding that the ruling is causing “mass confusion” as the marquee Missouri U.S. Senate election ...
Read More »Judge wants sentencing for Manafort before cooperation ends
The judge in one of Paul Manafort’s criminal cases threw a wrench Thursday into special counsel Robert Mueller’s plans for the former Trump campaign chairman’s cooperation. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said in a new order that Manafort’s plea ...
Read More »Roberts asks federal judges to handle Kavanaugh complaints
Chief Justice John Roberts is referring ethics complaints against new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to federal judges in Colorado and neighboring states. The complaints deal with statements Kavanaugh made during his confirmation hearings. They were filed originally with Kavanaugh’s ...
Read More »Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh clears crucial Senate hurdle
A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle Friday, setting up a likely final showdown this weekend in a battle that’s seen claims of long-ago sexual assault by the nominee threaten President Donald ...
Read More »Historian seeks grand jury transcripts in notorious lynching
Seven decades ago, a federal grand jury in Georgia heard 16 days of testimony but declared itself unable identify or indict anyone involved in the brazen lynching of two young black couples on a Georgia country road. Now a historian ...
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