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Former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt who was elected to the U.S. Senate in August 2022, (photo courtesy of the Attorney General's office) Former Attorney General Eric Schmitt's public attacks on school districts led to 'even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused'By JASON HANCOCKMissouri IndependentFormer Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt lacked any legal authority to order school districts to end COVID-19 mitigation measures, a Jackson County judge ruled Friday. In his 18-page decision, Judge Marco Roldan concluded that the attorney general's office did not follow Missouri law when it demanded last year that Lee's Summit R-7 School District rescind the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.Schmitt sued Lee's Summit, along with 46 other school districts, then amplified his attacks on social media, "encouraging parents and students to defy the authority granted to the board of education by Missour
The Lee’s Summit School District won its countersuit against the then-Missouri attorney general when a judge ruled Eric Schmitt could not order schools to cease their COVID mitigation efforts.