Missouri redistricting

The ACLU is arguing the declaration by Attorney General Catherine Hanaway that the new Missouri congressional map is in effect violates Missourians’ rights to a referendum.

St. Louis Public Radio’s politics team and editors picked the top stories that defined 2025 for Missouri, Illinois and St. Louis politics.

The Springfield Republican was recently ousted as the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He talked about why he felt 2025 was a turning point in Missouri politics on the latest episode of Politically Speaking.

The disagreement over whether Missouri’s new congressional map is in effect or frozen is at the heart of a bitter dispute in federal court between the state attorney general’s office and lawyers for the referendum campaign.

Missouri state Rep. LaKeySha Bosley discussed the future of the historically African American 1st Congressional District on the latest episode of the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air.

People Not Politicians sued after Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said he wouldn’t count signatures collected before Oct. 14.

Opponents of the new map contended that lawmakers couldn’t engage in mid-decade redistricting. But a Cole County judge ruled there's no explicit prohibition on the practice.

While a federal court decision Monday gives Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins the chance to reject the referendum, backers of the plan aren’t expecting that move to hold up in state court.

Attorneys for People Not Politicians said in court Monday that a judge should rule against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ actions on the proposed congressional redistricting referendum.

The federal case is one of multiple legal battles over the mid-decade redistricting.