Overview
- Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a federal order and Missouri officials moved to use the 2022 congressional map for November while the 2025 map appears on the ballot as Proposition A.
- Five voters filed a proposed class action in Cole County seeking about $80 million by asking for the $500 maximum under a 1945 Missouri law for roughly 162,000 verified petition signers who say Hoskins failed to perform his duties.
- The class-action alleges Hoskins wrongly rejected the People Not Politicians referendum, directed officials to use the 2025 map after the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the 2022 map, and improperly consented to conflicting federal litigation.
- Former election integrity director Nicholas La Strada filed a whistleblower suit accusing Hoskins’s staff of plotting a fabricated complaint, deactivating La Strada’s system access and badge, and improperly intervening in a local election.
- The legal fights created last-minute ballot and mailing pressure for county election officials, an expedited appeal at the 8th Circuit remains pending, and the outcome could affect Missouri’s congressional delegation and election oversight accountability.