By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning.
Missouri voters picked their congressional nominees Tuesday. Less than 24 hours later, there is still a serious legal question about which districts those nominees should run in.
The campaign seeking a referendum on Missouri’s new congressional map is asking a judge not only to put the issue before voters, but to prohibit the state from using the map in November. That creates an unusually complicated problem because the primary has already been conducted under those district lines.
What happens if the court agrees? It’s not clear. The two sides are already sharply divided over what the law allows, and election deadlines leave little room to sort it out.
So the fight is no longer only about whether voters get a say on the map. It's about how Missouri gets from Tuesday's primary to Election Day. Our top story has the legal arguments and the shrinking calendar.
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by Jason Hancock
People Not Politicians wants a Cole County judge to reverse Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and prohibit use of the gerrymandered map.
(Jason Hancock/Missouri Independent)
by Jason Hancock
Tuesday didn’t produce a revolution. It produced something potentially more interesting: a Republican Senate with no obvious mandate about what voters want it to become.
(Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)
COMMENTARY
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