Tony Messenger delivers Millstone Lecture at Saint Louis University Law School By Tony Messenger 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
By William H. Freivogel 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
By William H. Freivogel Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told an ethics class at Southern Illinois University Carbondale this month that he was the victim of an establishment “trying to bury me and bury the truth…The whole thing was a political prosecution.” And he wants retribution. He told the students he hoped to see, “Everyone
By Alina Pawl-Castanon Photographer Bill Putnam was searching palm groves along the arching river of the Tigris south of Baghdad in 2004 when the Iraqi soldiers with the U.S. Army unit he was embedded with started to drop. The sun was harsh and the air was thick with humidity that July day, 20 years ago.
By William H. Freivogel 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