The Missouri Supreme Court set Sept. 2 for arguments in the appeals of two ballot measure cases, including a referendum on the state’s gerrymandered congressional map. Both measures were ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a Cole County judge. The court took a case over a referendum on the redistricting on direct appeal. And it issued an order […]
Whether Missourians vote in a referendum on congressional redistricting could turn on the question of what happens to the Aug. 4 primary results, arguments Wednesday in a Cole County courtroom showed. Candidates were nominated in Missouri’s eight districts but six of those districts were redrawn as part of the gerrymandered map passed in 2025 to […]
While the nation faces various stress tests for the rule of law upon which our country was built, Missouri courts are facing their own stress test in the hot mess of our current congressional redistricting. Our Legislature redrew our congressional maps in 2025 at the insistence of President Donald Trump. The chief aim was to […]
The fate of two proposed ballot measures —- a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map and a constitutional amendment limiting legislative power to alter laws passed by initiative — will go on trial next week, a Cole County judge decided Wednesday. Circuit Judge Daniel Green ordered back-to-back hearings for the two measures Secretary of State […]
The Missouri Supreme Court wants a quick resolution in lower courts of a lawsuit that will decide if voters will see a congressional redistricting referendum on the Nov. 3 ballot. In a Monday letter to Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green, Chief Justice William Brent Powell noted that state law requires the case to be […]
A campaign seeking to make it harder for lawmakers to alter voter-approved initiatives sued Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on Thursday, asking a judge to overturn his decision blocking the proposed constitutional amendment from the November ballot. The lawsuit, filed in Cole County Circuit Court by three Missourians who signed the Respect Missouri Voters petition, […]
The campaign seeking a public vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map is asking a Cole County judge to do more than put the referendum on the November ballot — it wants the court to prohibit the state from using the map at all this fall. What that would mean for the candidates nominated Tuesday in […]
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins blocked a public vote on the state’s new congressional map Tuesday, declaring a referendum petition unconstitutional a few hours before polls closed in the primary election. He refused to tell reporters at a Jefferson City press conference whether the petition had enough valid signatures to qualify for the November […]
