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Members of People not Politicians and other progressive groups protested Missouri's redistricted map in front of the Supreme Court.

HB 3146 would give the Secretary of State more control over bill summaries, taking power away from courts.

Michael Thornhill, who at times showed up to work in an Elvis Presley costume, was removed in part because of his repeated political statements in the courtroom.

The Missouri Supreme Court made a language change to the definition of marijuana offenses that makes erasing marijuana-related charges more restrictive. The change overrides a voter decision from 2022 that said all class A-D felonies involving more than 3 pounds of marijuana would be erased from criminal records.

The plaintiffs are seeking a reversal of a lower court that upheld the ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is appealing an order from a Jackson County judge that currently prevents the state from enforcing numerous abortion regulations. But the state supreme court unanimously refused to take up his request.

Missouri voters passed Proposition A with 57% approval. Unless the state Supreme Court grants a legal challenge, the first minimum wage increase kicks in Jan. 1.

The court's Tuesday ruling updates the election date it set in April, after it threw out the Amendment 4 results from 2022. Gov. Mike Parson and Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft set the date for August, three months earlier than the court initially put in its ruling.

A 2019 medical marijuana license applicant says the state broke its own rules by not specifying why its application was incomplete.

The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld voting districts drawn for the state Senate against a challenge that claimed they had wrongly split some communities.