William Freivogel
Contributor at St.Louis Public Radio NPR
Journalist, lawyer, academic; loves Cardinals and four children and 8 grandchildren
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2 months ago |
gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel
French publication Le Monde headlined this week that it was “The week the US shook Europe’s world.”Americans could justifiably say it’s the month that shook ours. There is no precedent for President Donald Trump’s massive restructuring of the government with a flurry of executive orders, pronouncements, firings and pardons that have overturned norms, violated laws and demoralized civil servants. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali.
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2 months ago |
gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel
While President Donald Trump unleashes a torrent of legally questionable exertions of power, Congress sits by compliantly, the U.S. Supreme Court remains unengaged and the Fourth Estate shrinks from its role as a watchdog of presidential abuse. Media executives even curry favor with the man they’re supposed to be watching. In short, the check and balances of the Constitution are hauntingly silent.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel
Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Supreme Court reporter, said in St. Louis last week that Justice Samuel Alito elaborately reinterpreted a 1990s precedent to “provide to a veneer of legal analysis on what is at its core a religious tract” overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel
“Facts can’t fix this.”That was the headline that emerged from a post-election discussion recently at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School about how the press fell short covering the presidential election. The point: The press constantly repeating facts and pointing out lies won’t stop a man like Donald Trump from building a successful campaign on a foundational lie about the last election being stolen from him.
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Dec 12, 2024 |
gatewayjr.org | William Freivogel
Media lawyers told a state court judge this month that the Missouri law requiring redactions of the names of witnesses and victims from court records violated both the state and federal constitutions. Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office replied that the law does not require as many redactions as the media lawyers say and therefore does not violate the constitutions. Bailey’s office conceded, however, that if the law is as broad as the media says, it could be unconstitutional.
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