Cancel a speech, not the Missouri Constitution

Cancel a speech, not the Missouri Constitution

The Jefferson City drama last week was the cancellation of the Missouri chief justice’s annual “state of the judiciary” speech to a joint session of the legislature, a cancellation in response to a unanimous Missouri Supreme Court decision that enforced the Missouri Constitution’s rule that a bill must have only one subject. The objection from some legislators — who kept the legislature from holding its joint session — was not that the unanimous…