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Kate Riga

@kateriga.bsky.social
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Covering the Supreme Court etc at TPM & co-hosting the TPM Show; Philly-born Mystics diehard 🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️Call me/beep me: kateriga.24/ kate@talkingpointsmemo.com 📸 Leah Miessler, Anna Moneymaker

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The in-person dispensing requirement will almost certainly be put back into force, as the anti-abortion movement is incensed by the success with which patients even in red states are getting mifepristone prescribed by doctors in blue ones and sent through the mail
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Per a filing for Louisiana's attempt to restrict mifepristone, FDA gives us an idea of when the (deliberately post-midterms) crackdown will begin. Agency estimates that its "safety review" of mifepristone will be done by March 2027, and that its likely adding back of restrictions will follow
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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SCOTUS Finally Puts an End to Missouri Republicans’ Map Scheme With Slap on Wrist for Lower Judges
For the third time in just over two weeks, the Supreme Court...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hehehe
This Court’s September 10 stay order meant that the
2022 map would be used in the 2026 congressional election
in Missouri, absent further order of this Court. And the
election has now begun under the 2022 map. But on
September 21, 11 days after this Court’s most recent order,
the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered
the District Court to enter a permanent injunction in effect
requiring use of the 2025 map instead of the 2022 map in
the 2026 election. Given this Court’s two prior orders in
this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should
come as no surprise
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If 8th Circuit rules as anticipated, People Not Politicians will file emergency appeal to SCOTUS to maintain block on 7-1 gerrymander. The map seemed off the table after SCOTUS' last intervention, but a hostile 8th circuit panel (2 Trump judges, 1 H W Bush) seems likely to rule for MO Republicans
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
shot at kavanaugh here
Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM. Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling.
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In his concurrence, Kavanaugh wrote that he would have supported the executive order’s legality but for the compressed timeline, which violated the APA “because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.”
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Huge talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Effort to Break Vote By Mail Before Midterms
The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to take unprecedented control...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chief Justice Powell says that Hoskins ~was~ in contempt of court, but has "since corrected his contemptuous conduct" by telling election officials to use the '22 maps
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Getting ahead of his 2 pm (local) return to Missouri Supreme Court, Secretary of State Hoskins says he's directing local election authorities to use the '22 map (6R-2D, though keep half an eye on MO-02, an R+8 district, which could get swept up if a big enough blue wave manifests)
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chief to Missouri/Hoskins lawyer as he gavels hearing out: I would tell your client "not to venture far from Jefferson City until this contempt motion is resolved"
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hatfield is mad now, given Missouri officials' squishiness - recommends Court to tell local election officials today that they are to follow Court's order and implement '22 map
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Judges working in tandem to pin AG's office down on next steps — Gooch asks if SOS now intends to implement '22 map (lawyer says yes absent further federal court action), Fischer asks if Hoskins intends to email election admins w the new guidance after this hearing (lawyer wriggles out of second q)
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Multiple Supreme Court judges pissed that Hoskins went with the federal court order rather than just doing nothing until SCOTUS weighed in
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Judge Wilson says he's dissatisfied with Missouri's reply that they're considering next steps. "I don't want to wake up tomorrow and read that the secretary says he can do nothing because the 9/8 deadline has passed" (9/8 was deadline to finalize ballots in the state)
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chief: "We’re in a precarious situation." Urges them all to "get on the same page" and "find a way to save some of these elections so they are valid and we can sit the congressional delegation that our state is entitled to"
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice W. Brent Powell getting stern with AG's office — makes him repeat back that HB1 (the new 7-1 gerrymander) never legally went into effect
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Missouri's lawyer: Secretary of State Hoskins "acknowledges that this court's injunction back in full force and effect" and is "evaluating next steps"
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chuck Hatfield, counsel for People Not Politicians, tells Missouri Supreme Court that SOS Hoskins told him he understands that he's under an injunction from the state Supreme Court, and that he currently intends to proceed to the general election under the 2022 map (a 6R-2D gerrymander)
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Big loss for Republicans: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
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Supreme Court Pauses Federal Court Order, Dealing Blow to Missouri Republicans in Gerrymander Battle
The Supreme Court stayed a Missouri federal court order Thursday, blocking a...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Breaking: Supreme Court stays federal judge's order that Hoskins can only use new 7-1 gerrymander. As of right now, Missouri Supreme Court order blocking that map from being used rules the day. This is all happening at lightning speed
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Federal Judge Denies ‘Extraordinary Measure’ of Enjoining Missouri Supreme Court Ahead of Hoskins’ Contempt Hearing
U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark denied Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Overnight: Judge Clark denies Hoskins' extraordinary request to stop the Missouri Supreme Court from holding him in contempt: "Numerous considerations counsel this Court against enjoining a state court of last resort, particularly before it even conducts a hearing" Contempt hearing 10 am local time
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And we're back at SCOTUS - People Not Politicians seeking emergency stay.
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
*H W Bush
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New: 8th Circuit panel (two Trump judges and one W Bush) deny People Not Politicians' request to stay lower court order that Hoskins not use any map -but- the new 7-1 gerrymander (that the Missouri Supreme Court enjoined). We'll be back at SCOTUS, possibly within hours
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Man, this case is so bizarre. Hoskins now going back to the federal judge to ask him to block the Missouri Supreme Court from holding him in contempt! He says that while this kind of injunction is usually barred, there's an exception to effectuate a federal court's judgment
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Catch up on Louisiana's effort to run back 2024's failed attempt to restrict mifepristone, this time in a different outfit: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fifth-c...
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Appeals Court Skeptical That Louisiana Can Sue FDA Over Mifepristone Being Mailed into the State
Louisiana was met with a chilly reception Wednesday, as it pushed to...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Richman says she sees TV ads every day saying that drugs can cause side effects of stroke, death etc — and those still got approved. "I'm not sure why this drug would be any different," she said of mifepristone
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today at the 5th Circuit, Louisiana trying to roll back access to mifepristone, the abortion drug (incl bringing back the in-person dispensing requirement). So far Judges Higginson (Obama), Richman (W Bush) & Douglas (Biden) skeptical that you can sue FDA for mifepristone being mailed into LA
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tomorrow at 11 am ET, Missouri Sec of State Denny Hoskins will show up (in person) to explain to the MO Supreme Court why he decided to follow the order of a Trump-appointed federal judge (saying he can use no other map but the new gerrymander) and ignore the Sup Court (says he can't use that map)
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
!! people not politicians now asking Missouri Supreme Court to hold Secretary of State and AG in contempt for saying they intend to follow the Trump judge‘s order instead of the state Supreme Court‘s
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People Not Politicians et al asking Judge Clark (Trump judge) to stay his order: "This lawsuit is in every material respect an appeal of the Missouri Supreme Court’s judgment disguised as an original federal action."
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump judge order has already been appealed to the 8th circuit
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hatfield: "An individual federal district judge does not have the authority to overrule a decision of the state Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court certainly does, absolutely."
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chuck Hatfield, counsel for People Not Politicians: "We have a very clear MO Supreme Court decision & the state today says that decision is valid/in effect — Judge Clark has not overruled that decision, in fact idk that he can; he doesnt have the authority to overturn the MO Supreme Court decision"
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, hang on a minute. A federal judge (appointed by Trump) just handed down a temporary restraining order mandating that Hoskins use the new 7-1 gerrymander for the midterms. Missouri now under contradictory orders — appeal of this latest coming
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Big, big win for People Not Politicians, the group that spent months in court fighting Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' attempt to dodge Missouri's citizen referendum process talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
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Supreme Court Won’t Help Missouri Republicans Snatch Extra House Seat in Midterms
The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ attempt to jam through...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Breaking: SCOTUS will not greenlight Missouri Republicans' attempt to jam through new gerrymander that would change the current 6-2 map to 7-1 for the midterms. That new gerrymander will instead go to a statewide vote before it can be implemented
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New: Talwani denies Trump attempt to lift order blocking his EO. "the late timing of the changes to State elex practices the federal agency seeks to impose by Final Rule are contrary to the public’s need for “clear & settled” “rules of the road” for Nov 3, 2026 midterm elex, now only 2 months away."
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New: Trump et al appeal to the 1st circuit
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New: Trump mail-in executive order officially blocked again. SCOTUS will be final word here, but, as expected, Judge Talwani granted temporary restraining order for now
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Aaaaand just like that, plaintiffs (led by League of Women Voters) have just filed amended complaint
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Judge Unblocks Trump’s Executive Order to Tamper in Midterms — But Don’t Panic
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday lifted an injunction that was...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New: Talwani is unblocking Trump's mail-in executive order. This is likely to be very short-lived, and the injunction may be reimposed as soon as today. She said plaintiffs have to amend their complaint to include that USPS has issued a final rule (to satisfy SCOTUS' ripeness concerns) and refile
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
fascinating that the right's renewed fixation on "protecting women" in the WNBA has prompted another round of men throwing dildos onto the court mid-game. maybe, perhaps, what if, there is a throughline connecting these behaviors that has nothing to do with "protection" at all.... .... ...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In short: She's not taking action on the government's violation, the better to clear the way for the voting groups to obtain a new injunction that SCOTUS wouldn't automatically shoot down on standing/ripeness grounds
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New: Talwani says the government did violate her injunction by issuing a final rule for USPS/mail-in ballots. But, she says, having the final rule will now let the voting groups submit an amended complaint (which circumvents SCOTUS' complaints that the old suit in a related case was filed too early)
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Two groups many despise, trans women and wnba players, have received so much unnecessary vitriol the past month,” tweeted the Aces' Brianna Turner. “The only beneficiaries have been the grifters making a profit from the madness.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/enes-ka...
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Ex-NBA Troll Who Got in Mid-Game Altercation Laments That His Anti-Trans Crusade Distracts From WNBA Play
Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is just distraught that his antics...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Freedom couldn't keep his disdain for women’s sports out of his protestations that he strives only to protect female athletes  “I’m gonna try to beat Will Chamberlain’s record, I might go something like over 100 points for sure,” he said when Ingraham asked how many points he’d score in a WNBA game
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