Von Glahn opposition to the stay application

… as possible to manufacture the present dispute over Missouri’s congressional districting map. See App. 739a (Missouri’s Attorney General publicly proclaiming that “delay works in our favor”). After the General Assembly passed HB 1, a mid- decade redistricting bill, voters timely submitted a valid referendum petition, which—by operation of Missouri law—prevented HB 1 from taking effect. As the Missouri Supreme Court explained, “HB 1 is not the law and has never been the law.” App. 12a n.8. “[T]he congressional districts the General Assembly established in 2022 remain in full force and effect for the November 2026 election.” App. 13a. Yet Missouri’s Secretary of State waited until the last possible day—and only after he had implemented HB 1 in the congressional primary—to object to the referendum, in the hopes of running out the clock on the judiciary’s tolerance for a …