Missouri Redistricting Opponents Appeal to Supreme Court Over New Map
Map opponents asked the Supreme Court to block a new congressional plan that could alter ballots for more than 1 million primary voters, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Missouri redistricting opponents appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the Trump-backed congressional map, seeking to reverse a federal appeals court ruling that allowed its use in November.
- Conflicting court rulings emerged after the Missouri Supreme Court ordered use of 2022 districts while federal District Judge Stephen Clark temporarily barred officials from using any map other than the 2025 plan.
- Caught between contradictory orders, election officials report mass confusion, and voter Toby Thacker expressed frustration over shifting from the 4th District to the 5th District just before the general election.
- The map targets Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver's seat to help Republicans increase their House majority, though legal expert Travis Crum warned no definitive Supreme Court precedent exists on changing districts after primaries.
- Mirroring rare historical precedents from Texas and Alabama, this legal tug-of-war leaves the fundamental question of post-primary district changes in unresolved limbo as the November election fast approaches.
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Supreme Court urged to wade into legal mess over Missouri congressional map
The Supreme Court was urged on Wednesday to restore a previous Missouri congressional map for the November election, after a messy legal fight over the past week in state and federal courts made its way back to the high court. The left-wing group People Not Politicians, which successfully fought to put a Missouri congressional map […]
Missouri Map Fight Returns to SCOTUS
Missouri's fight over its congressional map is back at the Supreme Court. A Democratic-aligned organizer who put up to force a statewide vote on the GOP-drawn map is taking the justices to stop Republics from using it, arguing that a lower court order "runs counter to decades" of Supreme Court previous,...
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The Seattle TimesMissouri’s congressional map is back before the U.S. Supreme Court, sowing still more confusion
The battle over Missouri’s congressional districts has returned to the U.S. Supreme Court, just two months before a crucial November election. Many Missouri voters are unsure which U.S. House districts they will vote in and which candidates will appear on their ballots. A federal appeals court panel sided with Republicans on Wednesday, supporting a new map backed by Trump. However, this decision was immediately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court…
Supreme Court Asked to Block Missouri Map
“A group seeking to block Missouri from using a new congressional map that favors Republicans in November’s midterm elections has asked the Supreme Court to intervene,” the Washington Post reports. ”The appeal is the latest twist in an extraordinary legal fight that has plunged the state into electoral confusion just as it was supposed to finalize ballots and shortly before it begins distributing mail-in versions to voters.” Reuters: Fight over …
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