Originally published at: Missouri Secretary of State Comes Up With Reason to Not Certify Challenge to New Republican Gerrymander - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) announced Tuesday — Missouri’s primary day, the latest he could legally push the decision — that he will not certify a petition that would’ve challenged Republicans’ new 7-1 gerrymander. He deemed the attempt to force a veto referendum to be “insufficient” because “challenging a congressional map is unconstitutional…
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Stop voting for Republicans! They can’t win fairly, so they lie, cheat, and steal. GOP delenda est!
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He should be thrown out of office for wearing such a hideous red sports coat
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I had a no lapel version of that when I was in high school, 1963.
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Misery was not a confederate state but a slave state with a large portion of confederate sympathizers.
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Guardians Of Pedophiles: It’s not that we hate voters per se, it’s just that the whole idea of people voting is … unseemly.
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Here’s your edit.
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Hoskins is an asshole. He needs to be returned to his dog catcher job or maybe he can make a living as a garbage truck driver because everything that comes out of his mouth is garbage !!
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This who the Republicans are in MO.
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The SoS and AG positions in Missouri have been filled by odious characters for too many years. Major assholes. At least we managed to vote down Amendments 4 & 5 yesterday. Luckily they didn’t directly advertise 5 as “stick it to the Blacks in St. Louis”, because I think the vote may have come out differently if they had.
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Hoskin’s decision can be appealed to the Cole County District Court within 10 days, and its decision is supposed to be made with all due haste. That decision can be appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court, which is also supposed to rule as quickly as possible.
So there is some hope this idiotic decision will be overruled fairly quickly.
It is based, literally, on nothing.
The Missouri Constitution does say that state legislature districting decisions are not subject to the referendum process. However it says literally nothing at all about Congressional districting.
What it does say is quite clear:
The people reserve power to propose and enact or reject laws and amendments to the constitution by the initiative, independent of the general assembly, and also reserve power to approve or reject by referendum any act of the general assembly, except as hereinafter provided.
The exceptions are brief and quite clear:
A referendum may be
ordered (except as to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health or safety, and laws making appropriations for the current expenses of
the state government, for the maintenance of state institutions and for the support of
public schools) . . . .
Nothing in those exceptions even remotely relates to Congressional apportionment.
Literally EVERYTHING else passed by the state General Assembly is subject to referendum.
This should be a quick and easy case for both the District Court and the Missouri Supreme Court to decide.
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This should be a quick and easy case for both the District Court and the Missouri Supreme Court to decide.
But of course there must be briefs, hearings. It must be be pondered, debated, mulled, at length. Twice.
The question is whether they can get an injunction putting the maps in abeyance. But the state supreme court’s previous actions suggest the fix may be in there too.
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