This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...

A Missouri man has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after the ... Martin Luther King III, the son of the late civil rights icon, wrote: "Marcellus Williams' execution would be a travesty ...

Missouri allowed private citizens to enforce the law through civil lawsuits; Gorsuch and Alito noted that the Supreme Court had declined to weigh into a similar enforcement mechanism in a 2021 ...

However, Missouri's supreme court and governor ... Williams had previously filed a civil action challenging Parson's dissolution, and a trial court ruled that the governor exceeded his authority ...

(AP) — A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the ... Israel-Hamas war latest: Two-day death toll from Israeli ...

The Missouri Supreme Court and governor of the state declined ... the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization in the US, issued ...

A federal court has again ruled ... a little skirmish called the American Civil War. Gov. Mike Parson presumably knows that much about U.S. history. And Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the conviction and death sentence for Marcellus ...

1954-- U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional ... 1861-- Confederate States of America formed; Civil War begins. 1863-- President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation ...

Missouri's Supreme Court will hear arguments for keeping an amendment to overturn the state's abortion ban on this November's ballot. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri will ...

Balking at the program’s cost and its loan-forgiveness provisions, Missouri ... Supreme Court allow the Eighth Circuit’s injunction to continue against the unlawful SAVE loan-cancellation plan,” said ...