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Missouri urges Supreme Court to allow for use of congressional map expected to aid Republicans

Hoskins urged the justices to pause a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that would require the state to use the map that it adopted in 2022 rather than a new map which could give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that it adopted last year and used in its primary elections in August.

Missouri urges Supreme Court to allow for use of congressional map expected to aid Republicans

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Hoskins urged the justices to pause a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that would require the state to use the map that it adopted in 2022 rather than a new map which could give Republicans an...

House of Representatives that it adopted last year and used in its primary elections in August.

"No court in American history has ever given such an extraordinary remedy, which inflicts unprecedented chaos on Missouri," Hoskins contended.

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Hoskins urged the justices to pause a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that would require the state to use the map that it adopted in 2022 rather than a new map which could give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that it adopted last year and used in its primary elections in August. "No court in American history has ever given such an extraordinary remedy, which inflicts unprecedented chaos on Missouri," Hoskins contended.

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  • If successful, Republicans would hold seven of the state's eight seats in the U.S.
  • 9, 2025, organizers submitted boxes containing more than 300,000 signatures in support of a petition to put a statewide referendum on the new maps o...

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Telling the justices that "[a] federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri," Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins came to the Supreme Court on Friday night, asking the justices to intervene in a battle over the state's congressional maps. In September 2025, the Missouri Legislature passed – and Gov.

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