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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Placing the state’s top election official in what his lawyers call an ‘impossible position,’ Missouri’s attorney general filed a federal motion Wednesday to block the state Supreme Court from holding Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt. The emergency motion, filed by Attorney General Catherine Hanaway in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, asks federal Judge Stephen R. Clark to intervene and halt the state high court’s contempt proceedings. Lawyers for the state argued that the federal court must protect its own order, highlighting several key constitutional and logistical arguments in their defense of Hoskins: The Supremacy Clause: The state argues that Judge Clark’s federal order, which explicitly commands Hoskins to use the redrawn congressional ‘HB 1′ map based on the U.S.
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The ‘Purcell Principle’ & Voter Chaos: State lawyers stressed that the statutory deadline for altering the ballot has already passed and military and overseas ballots must be mailed out in just 10 days.
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