Missouri’s Supreme Court found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt for pushing a Republican-favored congressional map, then cleared him the same day after he reversed course and ordered use of the older district lines.
The two-part hearing unfolded Thursday against a backdrop of dueling court orders that left Hoskins caught between federal and state judges issuing contradictory commands about which congressional map Missouri must use ahead of the November midterm elections. By the time the state justices convened, the U.S. Supreme Court had already intervened, blocking the GOP’s preferred map and narrowing Hoskins’s options to one: comply with the state court or face consequences.
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