Originally published at: SCOTUS Finally Puts an End to Missouri Republicans’ Map Scheme With Slap on Wrist for Lower Judges - TPM – Talking Points Memo
For the third time in just over two weeks, the Supreme Court declined to let Missouri Republicans jam through a maximal gerrymander, this time with an air of exasperation. There were no noted dissents. The 2026 midterms in Missouri, for which voting has already begun, will officially be held under the 2022 map, a likely…
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Nice burn on the District Court and the Court of Appeals of MO from the SC. But what other chicanery does DonOLD have in his back pocket?
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They also took the pathetic Hoskins to the woodshed.
“In the several-month period before the August primary election, the Missouri Secretary of State was well aware that conducting the August primary election with the 2025 map carried significant risks,” the ruling said. “The Secretary nonetheless chose to proceed with the 2025 map for the primary.”
What a dork.
He’ll have to add the Subservient Six to his list of out-of-state sugar daddies.
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Hoskins is just trying to satisfy the in state sugar daddies working hard to turn Missouri into Arkansas or Louisiana. What shocks me are the Federal judges who were so tied to the Republican kleptocracy that they were willing to defy the US Supreme Court.
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I am still waiting for my absentee ballot from Palm Beach County Florida.
And that used-car-salesman red jacket, oh my …
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The supremes are doing MO GOP a favor. With the patient’s numbers bad and getting worse, all three of those pale-pink dummymandered districts very easily could have flipped blue this November.
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Under the 2022 map, Democrat Fred Wellman, a veteran with three tours in the Middle East and a heart of gold, has a legitimate shot to win MO-02 and to make the MO Congressional Delegation a more representative 5 & 3.
Missouri has a lot of Democrats in Kansas City and St. Louis and the surrounding counties. They deserve better representation in the US Congress.
It is hard to screw up as MO Secretary of State. MO SoS Hoskins is an idiot savant - he figured out how to screw up a simple job royally and on a National stage. He makes Democrats look good !
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Leave the fracking maps in place a$$hole. We just handed you the ability to purge voters. Don’t push it.
We have to maintain plausible deniability even as we work to put our thumb on the scale and deny a Democrat Party (name altered for accuracy) victory.
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After emerging from the woodshed, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said in a statement that the “ruling is a disappointing blow to representative democracy,” but said he would “of course comply with the law.”
A blow to representative democracy? By being forced to abide by state election law? By not being allowed to game the system? By not allowing the People to vote on it in a referendum? By not being rewarded (as usual) for being a complete dick (as usual)?
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Higher prices guaranteed through the midterms
If you like things the way they are vote GOP
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trump don’t need no stinking congress
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Love the rebuke. Personally, I think all the judges across the land should write the Supremes and tell them to cease and desist shadow box rulings. The door swings both ways…doesn’t it?
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Not bad ad
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My ears are bleeding from the dog whistle.
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On what planet is it fair for either party to create voting districts? This should be left to a non-partisan commission.
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