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By Jason Hancock | Missouri Independent
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Fourteen Republican lawmakers sent the Missouri Supreme Court a letter last week. It was not a fan letter. Hold Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt, they wrote, and we may come for your jobs.
The court held him in contempt the next day.
Hoskins had told local election officials to use a gerrymandered congressional map Republican lawmakers passed last year. The Missouri Supreme Court had ordered the old districts kept in place while voters decided the new map’s fate.
He went with the new one anyway.
His explanation was that a federal judge had told him to. The U.S. Supreme Court took that off the table Thursday morning, and by the time the state judges got around to him, Hoskins had reversed himself and told election officials to use the old districts.
The court said that was enough to purge the contempt.
No punishment was imposed.
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