All posts tagged "Missouri"

In December 2023, a woman living in a small community near Austin, Texas, made a $78.08 contribution through WinRed. A few weeks later, she made another.

Then came four more contributions in January 2024.

Those were the first six entries under her name in Federal Election Commission records stretching back decades. Since then, her name has appeared 126,739 times — including 1,011 times in reports filed by U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri....

The Supreme Court on Friday dealt Missouri Republicans another defeat, blocking lower federal courts from forcing the state to use the Trump-backed 2025 congressional map in the midterms.

The unsigned order is a win for People Not Politicians, the group that forced a referendum on the map. It puts on hold rulings from the Eighth Circuit and a federal judge, including an appeals court decision one legal expert had called "borderline lawless," and warns that federal courts should not change a state's election rules once voting has already begun.

"Given this Court's two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise," the justices wrote of the Eighth Circuit's ruling....

An appeals court's decision to revive a Missouri map backed by President Donald Trump will trap the red state's voters, an ex-prosecutor warned.

In a Tuesday episode of the "Talking Feds" podcast, former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman tore into the three-judge 8th Circuit panel for the logic it used to revive the map. The appeals court ordered Missouri to use a Republican-drawn congressional map for the November 3 midterms on Monday.

Republicans passed the map last year at the behest of Trump and split Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's (D-MO) safely Democratic Kansas City district into three rural-dominated districts. The order would move Missouri from six Republican seats and two Democratic seats to seven and one....

Just 10 days ago, Steven Rogers says he would have predicted Missourians were set to reinstate an abortion ban this November.

Then the latest polling results landed in his inbox. Now the professor of political science at Saint Louis University says he’s not so sure.

Of 900 likely Missouri voters surveyed in August by the SLU/YouGov Poll, of which Rogers is director, 44% opposed the abortion ban and 43% supported it. The remaining 13% were unsure, according to the latest survey released Thursday. The poll took place between Aug. 13 and Aug. 24 and has a margin of error of roughly 4 percentage points....

Legal analyst Michael Popok broke down a dramatic day in Missouri's redistricting war, describing a "very hot and upset" state Supreme Court that found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt for trying to defy its order.

On his MeidasTouch show Legal AF, Popok recapped this week's twin hearings, in which the court ruled Hoskins "was in contempt" of its Sept. 3 injunction barring him from using a Republican-drawn congressional map. The GOP secretary of state had emailed local election officials directing them to use the 2025 map anyway, citing a conflicting federal court order.

Hoskins escaped punishment only by "purging" the contempt, reversing course and instructing officials to use the older 2022 map after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the GOP version hours earlier....

The Supreme Court denied Missouri's request to use a redistricted congressional map for the November midterms, according to reports.

CNN reported the rejection on Tuesday and noted that the congressional map would have given the GOP a chance to flip a seat in its favor. The report also called it a rare Supreme Court setback for the GOP in its effort to keep congressional seats with redistricting maps.

Justice Bret Kavanaugh, who handles emergency applications from Missouri, issued the opinion, NBC News reported. ...