Missouri Senate narrowly confirms former GOP chairman Todd Graves to UM Curators seat Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 7 JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri Senate confirmed former GOP chairman Todd Graves to a seat on the University of Missouri Board of Curators early Wednesday.
Graves nomination was advanced out of a Senate committee despite some objections last week, but soon slammed into opposition on the Senate floor. It came to a vote after close to 12 combined hours of filibuster, which forced Senate President Dave Schatz to table the nomination last Thursday and bring it back after a long weekend.
Graves was confirmed with 19 votes, including one Democrat. Four Republicans voted no alongside all nine other Democrats in the chamber.
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After protests over police violence, Missouri lawmakers push to protect officers Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star
Mar. 1 JEFFERSON CITY For weeks last summer, hundreds of Kansas City protesters marched around the Plaza, knelt in the streets and chanted for police reform.
They joined a national groundswell of protest against police brutality, galvanized by the image of a Black man in Minneapolis dying with an officer s knee on his neck.
In the Missouri General Assembly, lawmakers have responded. One bill banning police chokeholds, waiting to be heard on the Senate floor, is described by activists as the most promising step forward on statewide police reform in years.