Elie Honig: The President Raises a Valid Point on Missouri House Map Blocked by Supreme Court

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HONIG: “ Well, Caitlin, I certainly do not adopt the rhetoric, but I think the president raises a valid point here, which is the outcome of this case leaves the voters of Missouri and the candidates in an essentially unprecedented and bizarre scenario. Now, here‘s why Missouri. After the 2020 census had eight congressional districts, which were broken down into six Republican leaning districts, two democratic leaning districts, during the mid district mid-decade redistricting that happened, that was changed to a 7 to 1 map. That new 7 to 1 map was used last month during the state‘s primary election. And now today, the Missouri Supreme Court says, sorry, that had to go to the voters first for a referendum. So for the general election coming up in November, you have to go back to the 6 to 2 map. How does that work? Where are voters going to vote? They‘re going to be voting in different districts for the primary and the general. How about the candidates? What happens to the candidates who won those primaries? The maps not going to match up between the primary in general and the Missouri Supreme Court does not even begin to address what people are actually supposed to do on the ground. So it‘s a practical mess in Missouri now.”