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Advocates Cite Ordinances Targeting Unhoused Neighbors; Requests to Mayor Remain Unfulfilled

"These ordinances disproportionately target unhoused neighbors who are expressing their constitutional right to free speech by seeking assistance on the streets. Our Constitution does not permit a lower standard of free speech simply because one is in need of assistance.”
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ACLU and Campaign Legal Center Call on U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Missouri Supreme Court Ruling and Let Voters Decide on Gerrymandered Map 

“Throughout this process, politicians neglected every path to provide Missourians with clarity and resolution, instead choosing intentional and unnecessary delay as their tactic to force an illegal map to thumb the scale of partisanship.”
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Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment Delivers

Missourians can once again access the most common form of abortion care, clearing the way for Planned Parenthood to resume providing medication abortion.
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Missouri Supreme Court to Hear Arguments to Suspend House Bill 1’s Gerrymandered Maps

The Missouri Supreme Court announced Friday evening that oral arguments will take place May 12 in an appeal of a lower court’s decision to deny a request to suspend House Bill 1’s new congressional maps until after a vote of the people.