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May 31, 2023, 17:01 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 48 states in filing suit against Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky, and its vice president Stacey Reeves, for sending more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. The lawsuit alleges that Avid Telecom initiated and facilitated billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people, thereby violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and other federal and state telemarketing and consumer laws.

May 31, 2023, 10:45 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted his motion to stay President Biden’s unlawful attempt to impose burdensome regulations that would hike the price of energy for Missourians across the state. The order prevents the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing these regulations during the appeal.

May 25, 2023, 14:35 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a coalition of 16 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of two employees who sued Springfield Public Schools (SPS) for unconstitutional diversity, equity and inclusion trainings that took place in 2020. The employees assert that SPS violated their rights when it pressured them to affirm the district's beliefs about “racial equity."

May 25, 2023, 09:41 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in opposing President Biden’s attempt to unilaterally expand executive power to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval. This letter comes after President Biden asserted incorrectly that the 14th Amendment vests this authority into the executive branch.

May 24, 2023, 09:48 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, urging the Board members to abide by their constitutional duty to enforce recently passed legislation to protect children from experimental gender transition interventions. The letter comes after the City Council of Kansas City announced that it will abdicate its legal duty to enforce the law and asked the Board to flout its legal duties.

May 23, 2023, 15:13 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a conviction against Jason Wayne Baker in connection with the murder of Chelsea Conway, the mother of his two children. On Father’s Day, June 20, 2021, Baker gunned down Conway while she was driving on Missouri Highway 21 in Reynolds County to pick up her children.

May 17, 2023, 11:45 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the Constitution, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 18 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden Administration’s proposed standards which would regulate the types of refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers Americans can use or buy. Ninety-five percent of “standard-size refrigerator-freezers, which account for approximately 70 percent of total annual shipments,” would not meet the Biden Administration’s proposed standards.

May 15, 2023, 13:42 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a conviction, in connection with a Boone County murder case, against Fabian Goldman. On June 10, 2020, Goldman and an accomplice broke into the south-Columbia home of a retired Marine Corps veteran and retired FBI agent. The homeowner exercised his lawful right to defend himself, his wife, and his home, and shot both burglars. Goldman went to a nearby neighbor, who was a surgeon, and survived. The other burglar was killed.

May 12, 2023, 15:29 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 12 other states moved for emergency relief from the Biden Administration’s unlawful attempt to further open the southern border. This week, not only did President Biden allow Title 42 to expire, but he followed up with a new program to release potentially thousands of illegal immigrants into the United States each day. Attorney General Bailey’s motion seeks a court order to force the Biden Administration not to implement this illegal program. He filed the motion in his existing lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) for the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the southern border.

May 10, 2023, 12:46 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the unborn, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 18 states in filing an amicus brief urging the Ohio Supreme Court to reject the legal challenge to Ohio’s Heartbeat Act, which prevents performing or inducing an abortion after a heartbeat is detected.

May 4, 2023, 16:22 PM by AG Bailey

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the following statement after the resignation of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner:

May 2, 2023, 11:14 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the Constitution, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 22 states in filing an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court, arguing that the First Amendment protects Jack Phillips and his business, Mastercake Cakeshop, from being required to create a cake expressing a message contrary to his beliefs.

Apr 26, 2023, 13:19 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained twelve felony convictions against Gilbert Silvey, Jr. for sexually abusing his step-daughter over many years. Silvey faces up to three consecutive life sentences, plus 72 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Apr 25, 2023, 13:00 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained a conviction in Franklin County against John Swearinger for rape in the first degree. The jury recommended a prison sentence of 40 years.

Apr 24, 2023, 12:45 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to affirm states’ authority to remove local prosecutors who refuse to put the law ahead of their personal politics. In an amicus brief filed in Warren v DeSantis, the attorneys general maintain that states have a right to defend their constitutions against local prosecutors who, by pledging not to enforce laws they dislike, essentially wield a veto power over lawfully enacted legislation.

Apr 20, 2023, 15:06 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a judgment for $27,000 against Var-iety Auto’s, LLC, a defunct car dealership formerly of Lebanon, Missouri. Attorney General Bailey sought the judgment in an attempt to recoup losses for Missourians who purchased cars and never received certificates of title or promised warranty work. The judgment covers the losses for eight such drivers. In the course of the investigation and litigation, the Attorney General’s Office also persuaded a third party to relinquish certificates of title for five additional drivers.

Apr 17, 2023, 11:54 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey recapped his first 100 days in office. He was sworn in as Missouri’s 44th Attorney General on January 3, 2023.

Apr 13, 2023, 12:13 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey promulgated an emergency regulation clarifying that, because gender transition interventions are experimental and have significant side effects, state law already prohibits performing those procedures in the absence of substantial guardrails that ensure informed consent and adequate access to mental health care. The emergency regulation follows the launch of an investigation by Attorney General Bailey into a St. Louis pediatric transgender center that has been accused by a whistleblower of using experimental drugs on children, distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without individualized assessment, and even giving children these life-altering drugs without parental consent. The regulation is necessary due to the skyrocketing number of gender transition interventions, despite rising concerns in the medical community that these interventions lack clinical evidence of safety or success.

Apr 12, 2023, 14:00 PM by AG Bailey

In a major win for Missouri famers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota has granted his motion for preliminary injunction halting President Biden’s unconstitutional Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. This order comes mere days after President Biden vetoed legislation passed by a bipartisan coalition in Congress that would have overturned his overreaching interpretation of WOTUS. The Court’s granted preliminary injunction overcomes the president’s veto by blocking the rule.

Apr 12, 2023, 08:53 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has assisted in obtaining nine felony convictions against Shawn Kavanaugh in connection with multiple murders. Kavanaugh was sentenced to life without probation or parole.