Denny Hoskins

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Supreme Court smacks down Denny Hoskins for creating Missouri's redistricting mess, calls it a cartographic catastrophe.

When your political map looks like a Rorschach test, maybe it's time to quit drawing districts with a broken Etch A Sketch.

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So in this case, they passed this ballot, or they passed this map, and then a whole bunch of signatures were, like hundreds of thousands of signatures were collected, this is many months ago, turned in, and now citizen veto's in place.

And that's, for 200 years, the precedent in Missouri has been that means the law cannot take effect, and it is, it is not the law un- until after the people vote to say, "Yes, we will," or, "We will not make it the law." The Secretary of State of Missouri, Denny Hoskins, and Republicans got together and said, "Well, if we just start holding elections under this map, then we'll force everybody to use this map." And that's what they did, and they acted as if, and they, they did everything to put every possible deadline off as long as possible to make it impossible for the Missouri Supreme Court or any other court to say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're using the wrong map." And that's what they tried to do, and eventually that failed because there were enough signatures, it got to the ballot.

We are gonna vote on that map in November, and that vote will now be whether to use that map or the original less gerrymandered but still gerrymandered map in 2028.

But in the meantime, they, they tried to force it.

So what happens now? Like, how do we have candidates?

So, so then the Supreme Court of the state weighed in and was like, "No, wrong map.

You have to use the other map in, in the election." And Denny Hoskins is like, this happened a few weeks ago, was like, "No, there's still a federal case going on," right? And he's like, "We're gonna keep using this map." So the state Supreme Court did something I have never seen with, uh, a s- a election official or a statewide official, which is they held Denny Hoskins in contempt.

And then the US Supreme Court, twice, Kavanaugh was like, "No, you gotta use the old map." Agreed with the state Supreme Court.

They turned in more than 300,000 signatures in December of last year to put the new map on the ballot this November as a referendum.

And Missouri's Republican Secretary of State, this dude Denny Hoskins, sat on those signatures for eight fucking months.

Eight months.

He rejected this petition on August 4th, the last possible day, and then ran the entire August primary on the gerrymandered bullshit Trump MAGA map.

That's what SCOTUS said.

Purcell just says federal courts can't do that shit, you know, unless the Supreme Court decides they can, because the Supreme Court has never actually said how close counts as close to an election, so it basically gets to decide case by case.

And the justices pinned the last-minute instability right where it belongs, not on the Missouri Supreme Court, but on Denny Hoskins, who's the Republican secretary of state who knew back in May that the 2025 map might never become law but ran the August primary on it anyway.

He gambled, and he lost.

Yeah.

Especially when, uh, Denny Hoskins was in contempt of court and was still trying to send out the new map after the Supreme court told him, no, that you have to go back to the 2022 map.

Um, Because that erases...

Breaking Kansas City up into three different districts makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

Both candidates have accused the other of ducking a second debate.

Missouri Republican State Senator Rick Bratton from Cass County, who's now running for Congress, and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins are asking a federal appeals court for qualified immunity in a lawsuit connected to the man they wrongfully identified as the Super Bowl parade shooter.

Here's KCUR's Grace Hills.

After the 2024 shooting, Bratton and Hoskins reposted a photo of Denton Loudermill in handcuffs, wrongfully identifying him as the shooter and as an illegal immigrant.