redistricting
Denny Hoskins spent Thursday morning explaining himself to seven judges who did not appear to be in a forgiving mood. Missouri's secretary of state had been ordered to appear before the state Supreme Court and account for why he should not be held in contempt, after he kept
redistricting
The Missouri Supreme Court did not run for Congress, campaign for a seat, or submit itself to a single contested voter. Last week it paused the state's newly drawn congressional map anyway — the one the legislature passed this year to convert a competitive district into a safe Republican
elections clause
The photograph is dated August 17, 2020, and it shows nothing more dramatic than a row of blue mailboxes outside a post office in Washington, sitting in the kind of heat that makes the asphalt shimmer. By that week the mailbox had become a partisan object. The new postmaster general,