Lawyers appeal decision to clear Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on election ethics complaint
A group of lawyers who claimed Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had committed ethics violations in connection with his challenges to……
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Brilliant lawyers invented false claims supporting Trump’s election lie
Young lawyers chosen to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court justices are the most brilliant law school graduates of their generation…….
City of St. Louis ‘betrays’ its pledge to alter legal positions protecting abusive police, critics say
Six months after St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones’ administration promised to reconsider its defense of legal doctrines that protect abusive……
Should this photo be published?
BY LINDANI MEMANI / When South Africa’s largest Sunday paper, the Sunday Times, on its April 19 front page published a photograph of a man in the act of being stabbed and killed, readers took to the social media and aired their views. It is common for photojournalists to be condemned for the job they do. Some in the industry are accused of taking photographs and walking away with Pulitzer prizes unconcerned about what became of the people in the images that earned them recognition. But that’s not the case in this instance. When the media cover violence by publishing a foreign national in the act of being killed, people can reflect on their ideologies, help the police with arrests and organize for social change.
St. Louis’ forgotten espionage case
By SCOTT LAMBERT / Former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling, a Missourian who graduated from Millikin University and Washington University Law School, recently was sentenced to 42 months for violating multiple counts of the Espionage Act. Sterling was convicted as New York Times reporter James Risen’s source in a chapter of the book State Of War, which described a botched CIA attempt to hinder Iran’s nuclear program. For the press, the story was strictly about Risen’s battle with the government and First Amendment issues. The media never questioned Sterling’s guilt or innocence. As a group, the press stayed on the Risen as hero narrative, leaving Sterling alone.