U.S. Supreme Court

Mark Kirk of Illinois Second GOP Senator to Back Gay Marriage, Week After Claire McCaskill

Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon may not want to talk about gay marriage right now -- but Mark Kirk, Republican Senator from Illinois, is not shying away from the topic. Just a little over a week after Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, expressed her support for marriage equality for the fi ... More >>

This Week's Local Bestseller List: See the Play, Buy the Book

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 27, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books and Subterranean Books. For the first time ever, one of the top books on the local bestseller list has ... More >>

Claire McCaskill Mocks Justice Antonin Scalia's "Weird Hat" at Inauguration

Just before President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term, Senator Claire McCaskill went all Joan Rivers on the men of the Supreme Court and their curious taste in headgear. Justice Antonin Scalia got it the worst for an odd little chapeau that looked a bit like an overturned b ... More >>

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Missouri Man's Warrantless DUI Blood Draw Case Tomorrow

When Tyler G. McNeely was knocking back drinks on an October evening in 2010, he probably didn't figure he was about to embark on a two year journey to the United States Supreme Court. But that's exactly where his night of boozing will land him tomorrow, when the nine justices will hear arguments t ... More >>

[UPDATE] Will Illinois Legalize Gay Marriage During This Week's Lame Duck Session?

Update January 3, 2:15 p.m.: The same-sex marriage bill will not be heard by the state senate until next week, Illinois Senate Democrats said in a statement this afternoon. Several senators whose "yay" votes are considered necessary for the bill to pass are currently away from Springfield due to fam ... More >>

Canadian Chippewa Indian Sues Missouri for Right of Legal Residents to Carry Concealed Gun

Quiz for conservative extremists: Which do you hate more, foreigners or gun-control? Well here's a court case that might explode your brain. On Tuesday -- with gun sales surging in the wake of the Aurora, Colorado shootings -- Edward F. Plastino filed a lawsuit in the federal courthouse downtown. He ... More >>

The Role Mexican Food Plays in the Immigration Debate

Jim Crow's Alive and Well in 2012

Should Undocumented Sexual Predators Be Detained or Deported?

Missouri Department of Mental HealthHe came for the American dream, but this is what Javier Calleja will likely get.​In a unanimous opinion made public this morning, a three-member panel of judges with the Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District sent a pointed -- some might say ironi ... More >>

State Senator Jane Cunningham Hints at Death Panels, Blocks Bill for Insurance Exchanges

​State Senator Jane Cunningham (R - Chesterfield) assures Daily RFT that she is not the "black helicopter type." Still, when reading House Bill 609 that would set up a health insurance exchange in Missouri, she came across language that reminded her of the "death panels" critics of federal health ... More >>

Angry Wash. U. Students Protest Ad in Student Newspaper, Calling it Racist

WikipediaHorowitz​The United Nations isn't the only place where Jewish-Muslim tensions have escalated this week. On the campus of Washington University, a small imbroglio over an advertisement placed in the student newspaper has generated quite a buzz. The dust-up began Monday, when the prin ... More >>

Windfall for Fairmount Park; Weathered Horse Track To Get Estimated $14 Million

Last time we ventured to Fairmount Park in '09, the JumboTron was in much need of repair.​The long legal battle between Illinois horse tracks and casinos is over. After losing an appeal and failing to get a hearing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Illinois casinos said goodbye this week to $141 ... More >>

Girl Scouts Take the City of Hazelwood to Court For Permission to Peddle Cookies

Watch out: These could land you in court.​The problem began with Girl Scout cookies. This is a strange truth, to be sure, but that problem progressed when Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills were barred from selling those cookies in their home driveway. In March, their home city of Hazelwood ... More >>

Girl Scouts Take the City of Hazelwood to Court For Permission to Peddle Cookies

Watch out: These could land you in court.​The problem began with Girl Scout cookies. This is a strange truth, to be sure, but that problem progressed when Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills were barred from selling those cookies in their home driveway. In March, their home city of Hazelwood ... More >>

Archdiocese Not Liable For Pedophile Priest Robert Johnston

courtesy of SNAP MidwestRobert Johnston: not the archdiocese's fault that they hired a perv.​Score one for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. Because, as a legal ruling today makes clear, even if a Christian ethicist would hold the church accountable for allowing a predatory priest to run roug ... More >>

Today in Chain-Restaurant Litigation: Chipotle Loses, Taco Bell "Wins"

Image via​Some days it feels like every major national restaurant chain is involved in litigation.Today is one of those days.First, we have this report from the San Francisco Chronicle that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to listen to an appeal from mega-burrito kingpins Chipotle after a lower ... More >>

Wanna Be on the Presidential Ballot in Missouri? We Need to See Your Birth Certificate, Please

Can we just lay the rumors to rest that Barack Obama is not an American citizen? He was born in Hawaii in 1961 -- two years after it became a state. Not Kenya. Hawaii. Even Glenn Beck has shut up about this, maybe because the claims are so ridiculous the Supreme Court doesn't want to waste its time. ... More >>

YouTube Removes Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Motorola Video

Two weeks ago, we told you about the local activists who busted out an anti-Motorola song-and-dance routine at the Best Buy and AT&T stores in suburban Brentwood -- and we posted a video of the performance. That video quickly drew more than 35,000 hits.Last week, however, YouTube unceremoniousl ... More >>

Missouri Attorney General Goes to Bat for Arizona's Immigration Law

Koster: Como se dice "bandwagon" in espanol?​Two days after Republicans bolstered their numbers in the Show-Me State and across the nation, Missouri's Republican-turned-Democrat attorney general is out with a move that's sure to please the Tea Party masses. Chis Koster announced today he is leadin ... More >>

Abortion activists have a new target: men

Show Review: Warpaint and Javelin Thrill the Luminary Center for the Arts, Thursday, August 5

Diana BenantiWarpaint last night at the Luminary Center for the Arts.​ Warpaint and Javelin Luminary Center for the Arts August 5 East Coast battled West Coast last night at the Luminary Center for the Arts, as dynamic Brooklyn sample sluts Javelin opened for Los Angeles' languid post-punk go ... More >>

Rod Blagojevich's New Court Tactic: Lull Jurors to Sleep

Image Via George Ryan's hair said the same thing​Rod Blogojevich pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to revised charges that he attempted to sell President Obama's vacant Illinois senate seat to the highest bidder. Then he revealed his new strategy for winning his seemingly unwinnable corruptio ... More >>

No Justice: We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

Last Week's Most Popular Daily RFT Posts, June 29-July 5, 2009

If you missed any of these items posted last week on the Daily RFT -- or were like some of us and just checked-out for the holidays by Monday -- here's your chance to catch up before you have to do any real work this morning.Michael Jackson Watched Donald Duck to Fall Asleep, Exercised with Incredib ... More >>

Photo ID Voting Requirement Rears Its Partisan Head -- Again

flickr.com/photos/christhedunn Robin Carnahan says a photo ID requirement will disenfranchise thousands of votersIf there is but one issue Secretary of State Robin Carnahan would like to take off the table and wish into the cornfield, it is the requirement that voters show photo ide ... More >>

The Spirit Moves

Muddy Waters earns a bravo! New Jewish, not so much.

How Does It Feel?

Recent lawsuits puncture the veil of secrecy surrounding lethal injection

Dee-Lovely

Dee Hoty brings New York style to the Muny's Mame

My Sweet Lore

Oh, those wacky Final Four campuses!

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of February 16, 2005

Taking It to the MAC

A former waiter sues the Missouri Athletic Club for discrimination

Hell No, We Won't Go!

A south St. Louis neighborhood raises a ruckus over plans to demolish homes for a shopping center

East St. Louis Spoof

A new comic novel asks: What if the ESTL seceded from the union?

Warning Signs

Paul Kjorlie hates vinyl banners in Soulard, so he hangs 'em from his house

Very Hemingwayesque

Running with the bulls, and other officially sanctioned behaviors; plus the Brad Cloepfil Death Watch!

The Media Go to Pot

How news outlets blew the medical-marijuana story

Letters

Week of December 27, 2000

The Two Faces of John Ashcroft

Meet Missouri's master of deceit

Prop B: Voters vs. the Phantoms

It’s not sweeping campaign reform, but it is a good idea whose time has come.

Pipe Schemes

The powerful Pipefitters union has a simple plan to provide job security for its members: It wants to take away other people's work.

The Benetton Four

Meet the men who sparked a lawsuit

The Olmstead Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court says it's time to end segregation: People with disabilities must be allowed to leave institutions and move into the community. Sounds great -- except the state's overwhelmed and the community's nowhere near ready.

New Scout Motto: Be Prepared For Bigotry

In Bed with a Nice Mattress (Company)

THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND

A tiny Indian tribe pitches a plan for a downtown St. Louis casino, but city officials aren't betting on the idea

WHEN PRO-LIFE MEANS MORE ABORTIONS

POPE-ASHCROFT HOLY WAR

Fresh from alienating black voters over the Ronnie White fiasco, will Sen. John Ashcroft take on Catholics in his drive to defeat Senate rival Gov. Mel Carnahan?

The Pro-Life Movement Strikes Again

Letters to the Editor

The End of the Line for St. Louis Schools

Why a "yes" vote on Tuesday is more important than you might think