MO GOP Won't Let Pandemic Stop Push For Anti-Immigrant Redistricting Overhaul
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed
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May 1, 2020 3:47 p.m.
Missouri remains under a COVID-19 stay-at-home order. But that didnt stop GOP legislators who returned to the capitol this week from reviving a measure that would shore up their political power.
The Missouri House is considering a constitutional amendment that would usher in an anti-immigrant approach to redistricting. The proposal is packaged with several others that would water down an anti-gerrymandering initiative voters approved in 2018.
The House has until May 15 to pass the new measure, in order to put it on the ballot in the fall elections.
Since the so-called Clean Missouri constitutional amendment was passed by voters in 2018, lawmakers have tried to get on the 2020 ballot a measure that would undo its key provisions. But their interest in diminishing the political power of immigrant communities predated the approval of the Clean Missouri measure.
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