In some sense, Gov. Jay Nixon inspired the new direction for a proposal to require voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls. Since the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a voter ID law in 2006, Republicans have been ...

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U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned whether prosecutors can retry a former Enron Corp. official on charges stemming from the accounting fraud that caused the energy-trading company’s 2001 collapse. F. Scott Yeager, a onetime business strategist for Enron’s broadband unit, contends ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a challenge from a sex offender who incurred a prison sentence when he did not register a change of address notice within 10 days. The Supreme Court previously ruled that it was unconstitutional to require ...

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In his famous speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. described the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence together as a promissory note to every American – a promise of life, liberty and the pursuit ...

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U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they may use a case involving Massey Energy Co. Chairman Donald Blankenship to require that judges disqualify themselves from cases involving major campaign supporters. Hearing arguments Tuesday in Washington, the high court considered whether West ...

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Last Wednesday afternoon a sheriff in a small Alabama town went to jail. He didn’t go there for breaking Alabama law. Instead, Sheriff Greg Bartlett was placed in his own jail after prisoners there testified in a Birmingham, Ala., U.S. ...

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