By Jim Byrne As the NFL prepares to kick off the 2007 season, I thought it would be a good time to review the role played by the referee. In football, referees are assigned to control the game and to ensure that both teams play by the rules. Many variables can occur during the game, […]

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Former legislator Mark Wright must be starving for attention now that he is out of power. On Thursday he made big news when Jo Mannies reported that the “conservative” lobbyist is opposing conservative Republican efforts to reform Missouri’s judicial selection process. According to reports, Wright is even writing long rambling letters to the editor using […]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (573) 636-6060 August 23, 2007 (Jefferson City) – The non-partisan, not-for-profit Adam Smith Foundation announced today that it has re-launched their recent radio ads and is intensifying its efforts to remove partisanship and corruption from Missouri’s judicial selection process. The Appellate Judicial Commission still has not answered serious questions regarding their […]

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“The activists within the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, are not always looking for the most qualified people to elevate to judgeships. Many of them are looking to support candidates who agree with their legal opinions.” By David C. Stokes Missourians amended our state constitution in 1940 to change the ways judges were selected for […]

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Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith By Rob Luke JEFFERSON CITY — The increasingly-embattled committee that short-lists nominees for Missouri Supreme Court vacancies has finally come out swinging at conservative critics. After taking another hammering earlier Tuesday from St. Louis-based GOP Rep. Jim Lembke over charges that the Appellate Judicial Commission (AJC) broke Missouri’s “Sunshine Law” […]

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This is getting interesting! Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt’s office said Tuesday that it asked Missouri’s Appellate Judicial Commission to provide the law school transcripts of the three Missouri Supreme Court candidates. The commission met in secret to select the three-member panel, according to a release, and it is unknown whether the law school transcripts of […]

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By Rob Luke JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court now knows that the Democrat attorney general thinks they should give it back but the Republican Senate Majority Leader thinks they should be allowed to keep it. The Supreme Court will decide what political candidates in Missouri must do with the newly “excess” contributions they […]

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By Don Corrigan James Trout of Webster Groves said he is too busy “kicking up his heels” to read the full text of a state Supreme Court decision in late July affirming his case against big money in state politics. Trout filed his lawsuit when he took exception to the state legislature ending caps on […]

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