JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Cole County judge held a hearing Tuesday on a lawsuit, challenging the constitutionality of a stadium financing package passed by the Missouri General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Mike Kehoe.

The lawsuit, Moon v. the State of Missouri, was filed on behalf of State Sen. Mike Moon and State Rep. Bryant Wolfin, both Republicans, as well as Ron Calzone, the director of Missouri First, an organization “dedicated to the sovereignty of Missourians.”

The lawsuit alleges Senate Bill Three, the stadium package passed during an extraordinary special session this past summer, is unconstitutional–-both as a piece of legislation as well as how the bill passed through both chambers.

“Senate Bill Three not only is about the stadiums, but it's about taxpayers subsidi

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