On December 12, Missouri’s Attorney General asked a U.S. District Court to impose sanctions on the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the redistricting case. The state says that the attorneys for the plaintiffs told the court at oral argument that the plaintiffs agree that laws subject to referenda are not suspended until the referendum petition is checked to see if it has enough valid signatures. But the Attorney General says the following day, the plaintiffs’ attorney told the press that laws subject to referenda are suspended as soon as the signatures have been submitted.

Here is the Attorney General’s filing. The case is Missouri General Assembly v Glahn, e.d., 4:25cv-1535.

The referendum process in Missouri is over 100 years old. One would think that the question of when the law is suspended would have been answered decades ago.

On December 11, a New Hampshire state trial court upheld the new requirements for voters who use postal absentee ballots. The new law requires that the completed ballot must be notarized, or it must include a photocopy of the voter’s state ID, such as a drivers license. If neither of those is feasible, the voter may take the ballot to the town clerk and show ID.

The plaintiffs are visually impaired. They cannot easily do any of the three alternatives contained in the law. Here is the decision. An appeal is likely. Robertson v Scanlan, Rockingham Superior Court, 218-2025cv-951.

The U.S. Supreme Court is now on vacation, and won’t return until Friday, January 9, 2026.