May 29, 2023
When he was running for
Senate, Missouri’s attorney general pandered to the far-right base and tried to
bully school systems into not having mask mandates, intimating that mandates
were illegal, and that school systems would be prosecuted. When several of them
filed suit, he backed down. One school system kept up the fight, though, and
won, on the grounds that the AG didn’t have the authority to make such rules.
Since the AG was doing it for
his campaign, I think his campaign, and not the school system or the state, should
have to pick up the legal fees for both sides.