Missouri’s Republican attorney general is defending a local high school football coach who came under fire for allegedly leading students in prayer. At issue is a complaint against the Cameron R-1 School District from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, national ...

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Republican legislators and Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt laid out legislative priorities for 2020 aimed at fighting violent urban crime, but they made it clear that those priorities don’t include stricter gun laws. Legislative leaders said they’ll push for ...

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office has not audited his compliance with conflict-of-interest rules since he took office in January, despite a policy calling for such a move. An office policy bans the attorney general from accepting campaign contributions from ...

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Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states. In a rare show of ...

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week withdrew a legal brief he filed in a defamation lawsuit arguing the First Amendment allows him to withhold some public records concerning private citizens that were requested by the plaintiff’s attorney. Schmidt originally ...

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