Secretary of State Denny Hoskins says the Missouri Supreme Court rulings "ignite nothing short of a Constitutional crisis"
Denny HoskinsMissouri Secretary of State, the state's chief election official and a defendant in the state and federal cases
In a news release on the day of the Supreme Court of Missouri's rulings, Hoskins said no court has ever rejected a congressional map that had already been used in an election. He added, "We may have lost the battle today, but the war to preserve our constitutional republic is far from over."
“Today’s Missouri Supreme Court rulings ignite nothing short of a Constitutional crisis. No court has ever rejected a congressional map that had already been used in an election, as the Missouri First Map was in the August primary. We may have lost the battle today, but the war to preserve our constitutional republic is far from over.”
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Should Missouri be allowed to use its 2025 congressional map in the 2026 general election?
Missouri lawmakers passed a new congressional map, House Bill 1, in September 2025, and the State used it in the August 4, 2026 primary. On September 3, 2026, the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled unanimously that a referendum petition kept the map from taking effect and that the 2022 map remains in force for the November general election. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and President Donald Trump said in early September that the primary map should be used in November, and the Eighth Circuit held on September 21 that using the 2022 map violates the U.S. Constitution. People Not Politicians, the Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU argued that Missouri law makes the 2022 map the only valid map and that ballots had been mailed under it. On September 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned per curiam order that records no dissent, stayed the federal injunctions, said that under state law the 2022 map must be used, and said lower courts should not require use of the 2025 map in the 2026 election. Kehoe called that decision disappointing and said Missouri will follow the order.
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News release issued after the Supreme Court of Missouri's September 3 rulings on the referendum petition on House Bill 1.
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Report on the Supreme Court of Missouri's September 3 ruling, with reactions from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, Richard von Glahn and President Donald Trump.
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Report on the Supreme Court of Missouri's September 10 contempt hearing for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, his statement directing local election authorities to use the 2022 map, and statements from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, attorney Chuck Hatfield and Rep. Bob Onder.
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On September 2, after the Supreme Court of Missouri heard argument, Hoskins said he intended to run the November election in the boundaries drawn in 2025, and that he would use the 2025 map if the court's order did not specify the 2022 map, according to the Missouri Independent.
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On September 10, the Supreme Court of Missouri found Hoskins in contempt for directing local election officials to use the 2025 map, then ruled that he had purged the contempt after he directed them to use the 2022 map.
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Why this label?
The reference point is use of the 2025 map in the 2026 general election. Hoskins treats the ruling that bars the map from the general election as a constitutional crisis and says the fight continues, which defends using the map. The closest competing label, “Challenged the characterization”, loses because his objection is to the map being barred, not to how it is described.
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The Dispute Index. "Secretary of State Denny Hoskins says the Missouri Supreme Court rulings "ignite nothing short of a Constitutional crisis"". First published: 2026-09-26. Last updated: 2026-09-26. https://disputeindex.com/events/2674-in-a-news-release-on-the-day-of