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Judge Daniel R. Green agreed in totality with secretary of state Denny Hoskins. Just sad.

On to the MO Supreme Court we go.

https://www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/JUDGMENT.PDF?courtCode=19&di=3992229

Don't forget this when it comes time for Judge Green's retention vote.

edit: Notably he washes his hands of the case in the last paragraph.

edit2: It's official, the appeal has been filed.
Sept 8th is the deadline for ballot changes. I imagine the MO Supreme Court will take this up next week.

Denny Hoskins filed his answer to the People Not Politicians lawsuit today. Again waiting to the last minute. In between the fiction verses was this nugget:

>... admit the referendum petition was signed by at least 5% of registered voters in two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts. Deny that any of these signatures are valid because the referendum petition is itself unconstitutional.

In addition the dishonorable judge Limbaugh yesterday issued a judgement that the 108,200 signatures collected before Oct 14 were not valid. His judgement makes light of the legislature, secretary of state, and governor conspiring to run out the clock on the 90 days allowed to collect signatures. He doesn't address the immense time pressure this puts on organizers.

Nor does he address the additional hundred of thousands of dollars and crushing effort required to collect repeat and additional signatures because of the dismissed 108,200 signatures. Dismissing that fact because PnP's expensive and herculean effort collected the signatures anyhow.

>The facts of this case also demonstrate that waiting for the Governor's signature did not impede the referendum process.

The judgment was appealed today by PnP. I'm so happy that this isn't being allowed to set a precedence without a fight. I sincerely hope the court hearing the appeal (not sure if it goes direct to MO supreme court or not) will drill Limbaugh a yet another new one. He richly deserves every reversal his record has accumulated.

See Title. Usually the Supreme Court hearings (inevitable next step) are available to stream, but I couldn't find anything for the Cole County court.

The People Not Politicians vs. Hoskins is set for Wed, 8/19 @ 10am. Same Question.

Test 2

Whoa, what a body

Tomorrow morning Cole county Judge Greene can hold up this letter from the MO Supreme Court and tell all the parties in the hearing 'I won't be allowing any delays or stalling tactics.'

https://preview.redd.it/fbsb3tk58tih1.png?width=931&format=png&auto=webp&s=f59c8243afd8c71a89f9fe2744d36e34bfa12b28

https://missouriindependent.com/2026/08/11/missouri-supreme-court-seeks-swift-action-in-redistricting-ballot-measure-case/

On Friday the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, and MO Republican State Committee filed a motion it intervene as defendants in People not Politicians lawsuit. You know, that out of state money the defendant, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, keeps complaining about. https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/newHeader.do?inputVO.caseNumber=26AC-CC00440&inputVO.courtId=SMPDB0004_CT19#docket

People Not Politicians (PnP) filed a pretty good motion to deny the request. From my not a lawyer reading PnP are stating their case is whether Hoskins failed to correctly certify the petition even though it complied with all the requirements in the MO constitution and MO laws to be put on the ballot. The legality or constitutionality of the contents of the petition was and is NOT Hoskins' to attempt to decide.

>"The Republican Party's stated interest is preserving the partisan advantage it associates with HB 1's congressional maps - not any legally protectable interest in whether the Secretary's certificate of insufficiency is lawful. That is not good enough. The Court should deny the Republican Party's Motion to Intervene."

edit: spelling

edit 2: Even without the judge approving the Republicans as a party to the case they have filed all kinds of motions and answers, which Hoskins himself hasn't even done yet, and are asking for the case to be dismissed and all costs, expenses and attorney fees be reimbursed by PnP.

edit 3: Interesting that both the People Not Politicians lawsuit and the suit filed for Respect MO Voters are both assigned to the same judge, Presiding Judge Daniel Greene. He schedule hearings for both suits at 10:30am on Wednesday.

Declares People not Politicians petition insufficent for not being not being constitutional. Not for the number of signatures.

Respect MO Voters petition he claims violates multiple issues.

Live stream:

https://www.komu.com/news/state/missouri-secretary-of-state-speaks-ahead-of-redistricting-referendum-certification-deadline/article_dac1b74c-e28d-4da3-8672-6c5830aa3ee3.html

Any good voter's guides out yet for the Aug 4 primary? The candidates are mostly unknown to me and I need better references than political mailers.

I read the Mo (less than) Supreme Court's decision https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=234954. Besides some blatant blinders to reality, I found this statement just very weird:

>If, however, the December 9 referendum petition filing is ultimately determined to be sufficient, article III, section 52(b) applies. in that case, because a “legal, sufficient, and timely” referendum petition was filed on December 9—before HB 1 went into effect on December 11—HB 1 did not take effect on December 11, HB 1 was “referred to the people” as of December 9, and HB 1 “shall take effect when approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise.”

So the redistricting law remains in both an alive or dead condition until the Secretary of State actually issues the certificate of sufficiency that enough signatures were gathered. edit: Just to be clear this ruling also makes the the map not taking effect retroactive to Dec 9.

My hope is that this pushes the SoS to immediately issue the certificate. Otherwise if they waits until Aug 4, the Quantum Court of Missouri can come back and say, 'hey we told you that HB 1 did not take effect on Dec 11 and the primary election you just held is null and void.'

edit: this will also effect the Respect MO Voters petition. Which congressional district map will be used to make sure they have sufficient valid signatures in 6 of the 8 districts.