The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday placed a referendum aimed at overturning the state’s new congressional lines on the Nov. 3 ballot.
It’s a decision that could essentially guarantee Congressman Emanuel Cleaver’s reelection and foil a plan from President Donald Trump and Missouri Republicans to send another Republican to the U.S. House.
“It simply reaffirms what we have said all along,” said Richard von Glahn, executive director of the organization People Not Politicians, which led the redistricting referendum effort. “We have the right to do a referendum, and a law cannot go into effect until the people decide. And so we’re going
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