Timothy Birdnow

Oops they did it again!

This is going to sow chaos in the election since the state prepared for using the new map and now it's unclear how the old map will be implemented.

In times past I quoted the pertinent passage about a referendum on the map; by the state constitution it is illegal for the public to vote on redistricting. It couldn't be plainer.

SCOTUS let the Missouri Supreme Court decision stand ordering a return to the old map "to avoid electoral chaos" when the chaos will come from using the old map now that the primaries have been run using the new.

It's a bullshit argument but the cowards at SCOTUS didn't want to be seen as being partisan and so to protect their "dignity" they deferred to the state court.

They did this on the theory that the public would get to vote on the redistricting.

But it is completely illegal to vote on redistricting.

III Sec. 3 of the Missouri Constitution says:

(i) No redistricting plan shall be subject to the referendum.

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How can that be any plainer? I don't know what justification the Missouri Supreme Court used but it's unacceptably bad legal reasoning. SCOTUS just went along with it without actually thinking about it because they fear a political backlash.

And when I speak of cowards you know who I mean - the three Trump appointees and John Roberts.

The ruling was unsigned so these creeps could hide.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Apppeals had reversed a lower court ruling, allowing the new map to go forward PRECISELY BECAUSE it would sow chaos to go back to the old at this late date.

Mail in ballots have already been coming in based on the new map, so SCOTUS just disenfranchised those voters.

FTA:

(Emmanuel) Cleaver was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Republican state Sen. Rick Brattin won a six-way Republican primary under the revised districts. They remain the candidates for the general election, even though the district boundaries have reverted to their prior lines.

Brattin was a plaintiff, along with Republican Rep. Bob Onder and two other voters, in a federal lawsuit that led to the 8th Circuit’s ruling and the last two appeals to the Supreme Court.

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And 59% of the voters in Cleaver's new district were new, making it likely they are simply trashed votes, meaning the Democrats might actually win a Republican seat now as these votes are lost.

I don't know who recommended the triple dunces of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Conehead Barret but I suspect it was the Heritage Foundation and boy did they screw up with these three stooges.

We desperately need Originalists on the Court. Sadly the last two left are both old and will retire or die soon, leaving us with the Four Dunskateers (when we include Roberts) as our champions. These four blow with the wind - the Four Horsemen of the Preposterous.

So there was an easy pickup the GOP just lost because of cowardice and legal maneuvering by the Court. I would add this Court ruled that you cannot create Congressional districts based solely on race, which is exactly what Cleaver's district was created to do.

We are dying from a lack of character. And we are dying from a lack of courage.

Jeremiah 19:7

Concerning Edom: This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

Sounds like modern America, does it not?

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