The minority leader of the Missouri Senate has filed a misconduct complaint against the Attorney General over a federal redistricting lawsuit.

Sen. Doug Beck, D-Affton, filed the complaint last week, saying Attorney General Catherine Hanaway did not have the right to list the entirety of the Missouri General Assembly as a plaintiff in the case.

In the complaint, Beck says Hanaway is in violation of several attorney rules, saying she “neither obtained consent from the Missouri General Assembly to represent it in this lawsuit, nor sought any action from the Missouri General Assembly to participate in the objectives of such a suit.”

“Although this lawsuit names the Missouri General Assembly as a plaintiff, I had no knowledge of the Attorney General’s intent to initiate such suit prior to i

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