Candidates sue Hoskins, ask court to let GOP nominate new
Constitutional questions test judicial philosophy as Americans debate the role of unelected judges.
A congressional map that was never in effect. That's the detail worth stopping on. Candidates filed, planned, and raised money around district lines that the courts never let stand, and now they're being told to run in August under something that isn't real.
New Republican Times Editorial Board
The lawsuit is the latest in a growing pile against Hoskins over his decision to hold the August primary using a congressional map that was never in effect.
Original source:
Read at StltodayHow We See It
New Republican Times Editorial Board
A congressional map that was never in effect. That's the detail worth stopping on. Candidates filed, planned, and raised money around district lines that the courts never let stand, and now they're being told to run in August under something that isn't real. This is how elections get messy. More importantly, it's how Republicans get stuck with a nominee nobody actually chose under the real rules.
The lawsuit asks the court to step in and let the GOP nominate a new candidate. Good. It shouldn't have to come to that. But when the person running the primary fights the party's own candidates over a map that was dead on arrival, the courts are the only brake left. We'll take that brake, even if we'd rather not need it.
There's also a question of trust. Primary voters deserve to know.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.