Enemies of an independent judiciary in Missouri are at it again. Measures have been filed in the Missouri House and Senate seeking to gut the state’s non-partisan judicial appointment process and render it little more than a political sham.

The state’s current…

St. Louis County Courthouse. J.B. Forbes/Post-Dispatch

There’s been much bellyaching in recent years, mainly from hard-core conservatives, about how judges are selected in Missouri.

Under the pioneering program acclaimed nationally as the “Missouri Plan,” state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges are…

The U.S. Senate this week gave unanimous consent by voice vote to President George W. Bush’s appointment of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri.

Given that Senate Democrats and the Republican president have been…

In a letter Wednesday afternoon to the Post-Dispatch, law school dean Kent Syverud took issue with comments attributed to Phyllis Schlafly in which she personally attacked law school faculty members opposed to her receiving an honorary degree from the university on…

Midday on Wednesday, Wash. U. Chancellor Mark Wrighton said he will not rescind the offer to bestow an honorary degree Friday on conservative author Phyllis Schlafly. His statement took the form of an e-mail message, the complete text of which follows.…

In a sharply worded letter Friday to Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton, 14 faculty members of the Washington University School of Law called on Wrighton to rescind the university’s offer of an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly at commencement ceremonies on…

Last week, by the narrowest of margins, the Missouri House passed a measure so boundlessly destructive and unnecessary that it almost goes without saying that it was sponsored by Rep. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield. What’s more, the Republican majority that passed…