The Fix Was Almost In

It’s only September, and America just barely averted the first constitutional crisis of this year’s midterm elections.

Hang with me here because this gets a bit complicated. Last September, the Missouri Legislature passed a redistricting bill called H.B. 1. This bill was part of the wave of mid-decade census redistricting initiated after President Trump essentially ordered the state of Texas in July to redistrict to create more Republican-majority congressional........

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