Advocacy group People Not Politicians has until mid-December to collect more than 100,000 signatures across six of Missouri's eight congressional districts. But Missouri's Republican secretary of state rejected more than 90,000 signatures the group already collected.

A group trying to overturn Missouri's new congressional maps went to court Thursday, suing the state for rejecting its initial efforts and for saying it won't count thousands of signatures already collected.

But the hearing was delayed after a Republican-backed group successfully joined the case and requested a new judge. That's after Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green pushed back the hearing due to illness last week.

Since being passed in September, Missouri's new congressional maps have been the subject of multiple

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