Missouri's top public defender just assigned a case to perhaps the most high-powered lawyer in the state — Governor Jay Nixon.With a flourish of some amazing showmanship, Missouri State Public Defender Director Michael Barrett wrote to Nixon on Tuesday, informing the former attorney general he was exercising his powers under state law to assign cases to any member of the Missouri Bar.
Specifically, Barrett told Nixon, he was appointing him.
Barrett has clearly had it with the governor.…