Jason Rosenbaum

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The feeling you have after starting Kyle Pitts, Sr. during your fantasy football playoffs

My favorite part of the Netflix Diddy series so far is when everyone spends 5 minutes clowning on him for having no musical talent.

My second favorite part is that 50 Cent is a hater of legendary levels to have produced this.

Also THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP is a fantastic book

With all due respect to Nuzzi (who is a published author, I'm not), what I've read so far is ... as @fantano.bsky.social would say ... not good

Here's what People Not Politicians, the group that turned in the signatures to place the new map up for a vote, said in response to Hanaway's tweet

I mentioned this on Instagram, but this particularly issue is why a county clerk may sue over whether the map is currently in effect ... since they would be responsible for printing primary and general election ballots.

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I will not be watching the Disney Sora videos

Especially when this is already available

(If I wasn't clear already, the submission of referendum signatures is supposed to prevent the targeted law (in this case the new congressional map) from going into effect. That's what happened in 2017 and in the 1980s.)

That's b/c Hoskins isn't making a decision on whether the referendum is going to voters until late July. That means no chance for moleg to move the referendum before filing ends.

I'm sure there will be other legal maneuvers, but this seems like the last gasp to salvage the new map for the midterms.

Don't want to be hyperbolic and say every single legal turn on this is important, but this one imho is really big.

If Hanaway and SOS Hoskins lose an inevitable lawsuit and the new map has been frozen since Tuesday, then the new lines are probably dead in 2026.

Get ready for yet another legal battle over Missouri's new congressional map...

AG Hanaway tweeted this out a few minutes ago. This flies in the face of recent precedent (the 2017 RTW referendum) and the Missouri Constitution.

Judge rules Missouri lawmakers can do mid-decade congressional redistricting Opponents of the new map contended that lawmakers couldn’t engage in mid-decade redistricting. But a Cole County judge ruled there was no explicit prohibition on the practice.

A Missouri judge affirmed an argument strikingly similar to a scene in Air Bud to uphold the state's new congressional districts.

Judge Christopher Limbaugh ruled while there isn't a constitutional provision allowing mid-decade redistricting, there isn't one prohibiting it either.

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fwiw: The autistic people and the families of autistic people I spoke were still angry/hurt/fearful several weeks after that Trump/RFK, Jr., press conference.

That was a blip on the news cycle for a lot of people. Not for people who were directly affected by Trump/RFK's verbiage and policies.

Missouri redistricting foes may have dealt big blow to Trump-backed congressional map While a federal court decision Monday gives Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins the chance to reject the referendum, backers of the plan aren’t expecting that move to hold up in state court.

Hoskins told me he could still decide on whether the referendum is lawful in late July. If he says it isn't, I'm almost certain there will be a lawsuit ... and legal experts don't expect him to prevail.

Overall, the last 24 hours have been not great for Trump and backers of the new MO map:

Missouri redistricting foes may have dealt big blow to Trump-backed congressional map While a federal court decision Monday gives Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins the chance to reject the referendum, backers of the plan aren’t expecting that move to hold up in state court.

I cannot stress how important the outcome of this dispute is for the fate of the Missouri map. If Hanaway and Hoskins are wrong ... and Hoskins doesn't decide on the fate of the referendum until late July ... I don't see any way the map goes into effect next year:

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Missouri redistricting foes may have dealt big blow to Trump-backed congressional map While a federal court decision Monday gives Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins the chance to reject the referendum, backers of the plan aren’t expecting that move to hold up in state court.

The MO Constitution says the map is supposed to be frozen after the signatures are turned in. That's what happened w/ right to work in 2017.

AG Catherine Hanaway and SOS Denny Hoskins say the map goes into effect until at least late July – after the March 30 filing deadline:

Missouri redistricting foes may have dealt big blow to Trump-backed congressional map While a federal court decision Monday gives Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins the chance to reject the referendum, backers of the plan aren’t expecting that move to hold up in state court.

So lots of major developments in the Missouri redistricting saga today.

People Not Politicians turned in more than 300K signatures to place the new map up for a statewide vote. That's almost certainly enough to qualify for a Nov. 2026 vote.

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Some bald guy interviewed me

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Also, don't go on Twitter. Or X. It will rot your brain.

Here's the lay of the land in Missouri:

- Redistricting foes will turn in nearly 300K signatures soon (more than enough to freeze the map)

- SOS Hoskins will likely reject the map and a lawsuit will follow

- If MO judges rule against Hoskins, the map is basically dead for the 26 election cycle.

Now, I could see Rs arguing that redistricting opponents are being inconsistent by using the 'Air Bud rule' to justify a referendum. Referendum foes could argue facts are different (the 1922 vote/the list of excluded things to referendum).

That doesn't change the facts in this particular situation.

Missouri's redistricting drama renews focus on direct democracy … and 'Air Bud' The road to redistricting in Missouri has been wild and winding, but its tie to a 1997 kids' movie starring a basketball-playing golden retriever might be the most unexpected development of all.

I will also point out that Hoskins and other Republicans are arguing in a separate case that Missouri Republicans can redistrict in the middle of the decade because there's no explicit prohibition around redrawing districts in the middle of the decade.

Secondly, there's precedent of Missourians voting on a congressional map in 1922.

Now granted, this was before the current Missouri Constitution was adopted. But without an explicit prohibition (which is in place for state legislative maps), I could see a judge being very skeptical of a rejection.

First of all, the Missouri Constitution already excludes appropriations bills and bills that go into effect immediately upon the governor's signature.

A judge could reasonably conclude that the exclusion of redistricting bills from the exception list is a defacto authorization.

It is true that Judge Zachary Bluestone (a Trump appointee) said SOS Denny Hoskins can reject a referendum. In fact, that was basically an uncontested claim even from the plaintiffs in the case.

But that doesn't mean Hoskins' likely rejection will go unchallenged ... or succeed.

I've generally stopped doing the "respond to a crazy X post on BlueSky," but this one is just too egregious to pass up.

This guy is apparently a major figure in MAGA Land, so much so Time Magazine listed him as one of the "World's Most Influential Rising Stars."

He couldn't be wrong here.

This is a really big deal, IMHO.

I expect Hoskins to reject the referendum when proponents turn in their signatures. But if courts force him to accept it, Missouri's new map basically can't go into effect in 2026.

Now, Bluestone did say that it is possible for SOS Hoskins to reject the referendum and claim it's unconstitutional. But he also said the inevitable lawsuit would have to be in state court.

Judge Zachary Bluestone (a Trump-appointed judge) dismissed Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway's federal lawsuit aimed at derailing the looming referendum on Missouri's new redistricting map.

Basically said the case wasn't ripe and it didn't belong in federal court:

there is an option to just... not send out that tweet or skeet roaming around his head