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Instead of defending the state high court’s ruling that a referendum on redistricting means using the congressional map from 2024, Catherine Hanaway’s office is asking for a reversal Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway's office is attacking the legal reasoning of the Missouri Supreme Court in federal district court filings (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s chief litigator on Sunday accused the state Supreme Court of adopting “a legal fiction” when it ruled that putting the state’s new congressional map to a referendum means Missouri must use its previous district lines in November. In a federal court filing, Solicitor General Lou Capozzi asked U.S. Chief Judge Stephen Clark of the Eastern District of Missouri, an appointee of President Donald Trump, to block the state Supreme Court order. Hanaway appealed to the U.S.
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