Missouri Supreme Court upholds GOP-friendly congressional map
The court said challengers failed to prove the map clearly violated the Missouri Constitution, leaving the GOP-backed redistricting plan in place.
- On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld a congressional map backed by President Donald Trump, rejecting challenges to boundaries targeting the 5th Congressional District.
- Republican-Led states including Florida, North Carolina, and Texas enacted similar Trump-backed maps, though five Republican South Carolina senators blocked a comparable GOP gerrymandering effort on Tuesday.
- The National Democratic Redistricting Committee stated "MAGA loyalists are using every lever they control" to lock voters out, while Marina Jenkins of the National Redistricting Foundation called the decision a "dangerous abdication of the judiciary's role."
- Richard von Glahn of People Not Politicians Missouri noted over 305,000 Missourians signed a referendum petition to suspend the map, though Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has not yet approved it.
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Missouri Supreme Court upholds new congressional map for 2026 elections
The Missouri Supreme Court granted a major win to the state’s Republican Party on Tuesday, upholding the GOP redistricting plan in two opinions it handed down Tuesday evening. The two decisions upheld that the state’s Republican-friendly redrawn map is legal and can be used for the 2026 midterm election cycle. The map, signed into law by Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) in 2025, dices up the Democratic district surrounding Kansas City and aims to give the…
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds New House Map
Jefferson City’s ABC affiliate reports: The redrawn “Missouri First” congressional maps were upheld by the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. Legal battles have persisted over the mid-decade map since its inception, with critics claiming it gerrymanders the state in order to give Republicans an additional House seat. The state’s high court heard three cases on Tuesday morning and declared that the petitioners failed to show the 2025 map “clearly…
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