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.
I am still waiting for my absentee ballot from Palm Beach County Florida.