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State Sen. Kevin Engler has introduced a bill calling for the nonpartisan election of judges.
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Read More »Senate weighs nonpartisan election of most judges
State Sen. Kevin Engler calls the current system of partisan elections “disingenuous.”
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Read More »Engler looks to the future
Senate Majority Leader Kevin Engler, R-Farmington, sounded off yesterday after losing his race for Senate President Pro Tem.
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Read More »Engler: “I’m just a senator”
After he was defeated for a bid to become Senate President Pro Tem, Senate Majority Leader Kevin Engler, R-Farmington, talked with the press.
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Read More »Legislature passes the 2010 budget
The Missouri General Assembly has completed a budget that uses federal stimulus money to forestall cuts made to the state's judiciary system. (pictured is House Budget Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood) As a result, both the judiciary and the state's public defender system will see slight increases to their 2010 operating budgets. Included in that budget bill is $37.3 million for the state's public defender system. The appropriation is slightly higher than what the department got during the current fiscal year.
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Read More »HJR 10 rears its head again
Debate over a proposed constitutional amendment altering the way the state chooses some of its judges has come back up for debate. The proposed constitutional amendment altering the so-called “Missouri Plan” failed to come to a vote last week after ...
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Read More »Senate committee OKs measure to reform Plan
The Missouri Senate may debate changes to the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan after a resolution altering how some judges are selected passed out of a Senate committee. Rep. Stanley Cox’s proposed constitutional amendment would, among other things, add another gubernatorial ...
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Read More »Martinez confirmation bogs down again in Senate
Linda Martinez’s path to leading Missouri’s Department of Economic Development hit yet another roadblock on Wednesday. Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville, blocked the St. Louis attorney’s nomination from coming up for a vote in the Missouri Senate after he expressed displeasure ...
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