Denny Hoskins
Role at the time: Missouri Secretary of State, the state's chief election official and a defendant in the state and federal cases
Statement summary
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.”
Why we used 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.