Missouri Court Summons Secretary Hoskins

Missouri's top election official faces contempt in a fight over congressional maps.

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The Missouri Supreme Court ordered Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for instructing local election officials to use the blocked HB 1 congressional map. Hoskins had a Wednesday deadline to answer People Not Politicians’ contempt motion, and he asked a federal court to intervene. The dispute followed Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s refusal to revive the map, leaving in place a state order that could limit Republicans to six of Missouri’s eight U.S. House seats instead of seven.

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Missouri officials and Republicans should not be allowed to evade the state court order blocking the congressional map. Seeking federal intervention to use that map defies state constitutional authority, and Kavanaugh was right to let the state-court ruling stand.