Show-Me More Deets On Missouri Redistricting Blocked Until Vote

Fact check for our all our frustrated friends . . .

From what we understand, the basics of the court's decision basically affirms that voters should have a choice about how they vote and it's hard to get too angry about that . . .

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SecState Hoskins has this silly social media flex with a baseball bat and pretending to hit so many issues out of the park with a perfect record . . . Like it or not, this might be his biggest strikeout so far. 

Check the deets . . .  

The court’s decision comes five days before the deadline for adding measures to the Nov. 3 ballot.

“Because the plain language of… the Missouri Constitution authorizes a referendum as to ‘any act of the general assembly’ and no exception applies, the referendum petition was legal, sufficient, and timely,” Judge Ginger Gooch wrote in the unanimous opinion. “This court reverses the circuit court’s judgment.”

And to make sure Secretary of State Denny Hoskins understands what the decision means, the court added an order barring him from using the map for the Nov. 3 elections.

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