Supreme Court on Friday drove a stake through the heart of Missouri's undead congressional map, ordering it be buried for the year and for voters to cast ballots in the districts they've used the past two election cycles. "In short, as a matter of state law, the 2022 map — not the 2025 map — must be used in the 2026 congressional election," states the ruling, which is unsigned.
Supreme Court on Friday drove a stake through the heart of Missouri's undead congressional map, ordering it be buried for the year and for voters to cast ballots in the districts they've used the past two...
"In short, as a matter of state law, the 2022 map — not the 2025 map — must be used in the 2026 congressional election," states the ruling, which is unsigned.
The decision ends, for this election at least, Republicans' effort to use a gerrymandered map to improve their chances of winning a seventh Missouri seat in the U.S.
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Supreme Court on Friday drove a stake through the heart of Missouri's undead congressional map, ordering it be buried for the year and for voters to cast ballots in the districts they've used the past two election cycles. "In short, as a matter of state law, the 2022 map — not the 2025 map — must be used in the 2026 congressional election," states the ruling, which is unsigned. The decision ends, for this election at least, Republicans' effort to use a gerrymandered map to improve their chances of winning a seventh Missouri seat in the U.S.
By Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent The U.S. In a unanimous decision, the court said that state law rules in the case. It also caps three weeks of dramatic court action that changed the map in place for November five times, tested the jurisdiction and overlap of state and federal courts and exasperated local election officials responsible for conducting the vote.
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