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Three years after the Dobbs decision, the legal challenges continue for activists on both sides of the abortion debate.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.
W. Brent Powell has served on the Missouri Supreme Court since 2017. He will now serve as chief justice for the next two ...
The Supreme Court of Missouri has a new chief justice. Judge W. Brent Powell was elected to a two-year term leading the state ...
In 2008, then-Governor Matt Blunt appointed Powell as a circuit judge in Jackson County and in 2017, then-Governor Eric ...
W. Brent Powell will be Missouri's next Supreme Court chief justice, according to a Missouri Courts press release.
Missouri is one of only two states in which judges can unilaterally impose the death penalty when a jury deadlocks on capital ...
W. Brent Powell, who now lives in Kansas City, will replace current Chief Justice Mary R. Russell. Powell was appointed to ...
Powell has been a Missouri Supreme Court Judge since 2017 when he was appointed by then-Governor Eric Greitens. He attended ...
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Blue Springs School District in a sex discrimination case involving a former transgender student. The 5-2 decision affirmed a lower ...