Supreme Court Rejects Missouri's Attempt to Sue New York Over Trump Prosecution

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Supreme Court Rejects Missouri's Attempt to Sue New York Over Trump Prosecution

This morning, as expected, the Supreme Court rejected the state of Missouri's attempt to sue the state of New York over the prosecution of Donald Trump and the imposition of a gag order during the pendency of appeals. Missouri had filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint against New York in the Court's original jurisdiction. To call the underyling legal theory aggressive would be an understatement (something about how the state law p…