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Hoskins reply in support of the stay application
Published by Office of the Missouri Attorney General on September 8, 2026.
The September 8 reply: if the U.S. Supreme Court stays the injunction, Missouri will use House Bill 1 for the general election.
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… Not so. The State’s consistent position—in Secretary Hoskins’s certification decision, before Missouri’s courts, and before this Court—is that federal law requires it to use the same congressional map for the General Election that it used in the Primary Election. App., at 257a–58a, 311a–13a, 323a–29a, 599a, 604a–606a, 1490a–1501a. Only the Missouri Supreme Court’s injunction is stopping that. If this Court grants a stay, the State will use the HB 1 map for the 2026 General Election. A stay thus provides full relief. It really is that simple. 3 On the merits, Respondent largely dodges Applicant’s arguments and relies on misdirection. Start with the Elections Clause claim. Respondent suggests that he is merely defending the same statewide referendum vote this Court allowed in Ohio ex rel. Davis v. Hildebrant, 241 U.S. 565, 566 (1916). Opp., at 23–26. But neither …
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Timeline entries this record anchors: Stay application to the U.S. Supreme Court.