News Analysis: Missouri’s hard-right legal arguments may be backfiring in Supreme Court
Illustration courtesy of Art Lien. The Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs, in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The obscenity of a single mother owing the county $15,000 after stealing $8 worth of makeup
Tony Messenger delivers Millstone Lecture at Saint Louis University Law School If you look on Missouri’s court website today, you’ll see that I have a bad muffler. Or had one, anyway. In fact, the muffler on my 2016 Camry Hybrid is just fine. It’s pristine. The truth is, I have a lead foot. A couple…
News Analysis: Missouri’s social media suit likely to lose in Supreme Court: Jawboning ‘happens thousands of times a day’
Judging from the comments this week from conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri and its far-right ally The Gateway Pundit are likely to lose their attempt to silence federal officials who press social media companies to take down false or dangerous posts. Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts…
News Analysis: The First Amendment and the Internet
On March 18, Missouri and its legal ally The Gateway Pundit will try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by “coercing” social media companies to “censor” false conservative posts on vaccine and election denial. The argument comes less than a month after the Feb. 26 argument in…
Opinion: Chicago adjunct strike provides student journalists with an invaluable reporting lesson
The part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago, where I teach journalism, was on strike for seven weeks, protesting cost-cutting decisions that will result in fewer teaching opportunities for instructors. It was the longest adjunct strike in US history before a tentative deal was reached on Dec. 18. The student newspaper, the Columbia Chronicle, has been…