I write all of the emails like these you get from the campaign. Not today.

Today, I want you to hear directly from Missouri's Supreme Court on how bad our Attorney General is in Missouri.

Yesterday, Missouri's Supreme Court ruled that Attorney General Andrew Bailey illegally delayed (and attempted to deny) Missourians' right to access the initiative petition and to vote.

In the initiative petition process, the state Auditor determines how much the proposal will cost taxpayers. The Attorney General is supposed to approve the Auditor's summary statement to make sure it's in the right format. Instead, Attorney General Bailey tried to order the Auditor to accept the Attorney General's inflated cost estimate for the petitions to reverse Missouri's extreme abortion ban.

Andrew Bailey asserted that he was King of Missouri and no one could tell him no. That didn't work out too well for him.

Here's what the Court had to say about our Attorney General:

The first subsection of this statute plainly and unequivocally assigns to the Auditor – not the Attorney General – the task of assessing the fiscal impact of the proposed measure....

The Attorney General also claims that, whenever (and for whatever reasons) he rejects and returns to the Auditor a fiscal note or fiscal note summary, the Auditor has no alternative under section 116.175.5 but to modify the note and summary and resubmit them to the Attorney General. This argument misreads section 116.175.5 and stands the entire statute on its head. The Attorney General construes section 116.175.5 as a grant of oversight to him over and above the authority given him under section 116.175.4. This is incorrect. Subsection 5 does not state that, whenever the Attorney General determines a fiscal note or summary does not satisfy any requirement anywhere throughout section 116.175, the Attorney General can return the note or summary to the Auditor and thereby compel revisions....

Until the official ballot title is certified – a critical step being held up solely by the Attorney General’s unjustified refusal to act – Fitz-James cannot challenge that title in circuit court or circulate her petitions. Fitz-James’s constitutional right of initiative petition is being obstructed, and the deadline for submitting signed petitions draws nearer every day....

If the Attorney General had complied with his duty to approve the Auditor’s fiscal note summaries in the time prescribed by section 116.175.4, the Secretary would have certified the official ballot titles for Fitz-James’s initiative petitions nearly 100 days ago....

And when asked whether he could break state laws and ignore our constitution when it comes to abortion, Attorney General Andrew Bailey said, “I’m going to need to spend a little more time thinking through that kind of the philosophical, moral question."

So much for the oath of office.

Andrew Bailey thinks he's King of Missouri. He violates the constitution. He breaks our laws. He has signed onto a letter demanding that states be able to access private information of women who cross state lines seeking reproductive health care. He's so extreme even members of his own party have to go to court to get him to stop breaking the law.

He's doing nothing to stop radioactive poisoning in St. Louis and St. Charles. He's done nothing to stop scammers from taking over our phones. He fights to keep innocent people locked behind bars and takes money from illegal gambling machine companies opposing him in court.

Andrew Bailey is dangerous. His willingness to expand Big Government surveillance and directives threatens the fundamental aspects of our democratic republic. He doesn't want our voices to be heard in our government because the only voice he believes matters is his own.

No one in our government is holding corrupt Andrew Bailey accountable. That job is left to the People of Missouri, and we're building a team of Missourians from all over the state to get it done and restore integrity to an office that once did so much good for our home.

As Attorney General, I will protect our right to vote, prosecute corruption, and start our state's first Civil Rights Division to fight tyrants like Andrew Bailey.

I need your help to get it done.

Andrew Bailey loses again.