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WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>For the third time this month, the Supreme Court rejected Missouri\u2019s bid for one more Republican-leaning congressional district. <\/p>\n

With no dissents, the justices upheld a state court order<\/a> requiring the use of a 2022 election map, which favors Republicans in six of the eight districts. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt this late date, ordering reversion to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos,\u201d the justices wrote.<\/p>\n

The GOP, with the backing of conservative federal judges, wanted to use a 2025 election map that redrew the district in Kansas City that had elected a Black Democrat. <\/p>\n

That could have given Republicans a 7-1 advantage, but the Supreme Court stood in the way. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of state law, the 2022 map \u2014 not the 2025 map \u2014 must be used in the 2026 congressional election,\u201d the justices said in an unsigned opinion. \u201cThis Court has repeatedly cautioned that lower federal courts should not alter the election rules of a state on the eve of an election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each side in this messy dispute accused the other of seeking to change the voting districts on the eve of the election.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the opponents of the newly drawn GOP-friendly map appealed to the Supreme Court for the third time. They said it is too late to switch the districts because ballots had gone out based on the existing map. <\/p>\n

They said the Republicans \u201cdemand a new map after votes have already been cast. Ballots using the 2022 map have been printed and mailed, and absentee voting, both by mail and in-person, began today.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the state\u2019s Republican attorneys said the primary elections took place under the 2025 map, and that argues for keeping those districts in place for the general election in November. <\/p>\n

Last September, the Missouri General Assembly, following President Trump\u2019s lead, voted to redraw its eight congressional districts. In recent years, the state had sent six Republicans and two Democrats to Congress.<\/p>\n

The Legislature\u2019s goal was to flip one more seat in favor of Republicans. The new map likely would do that by breaking up the Kansas City district that had elected Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Black Democrat, with a new district that favored a Republican. <\/p>\n

But a group called People Not Politicians<\/a> and its executive director, Richard von Glahn, gathered more than 300,000 signatures for a referendum to challenge the new law before it took effect. <\/p>\n

After waiting nine months to respond, Missouri Sec. of State Denny Hoskins, a Republican, denied the referendum in early August on the same day the primary elections got underway. <\/p>\n

Von Glahn and his group of voters sued and won a unanimous decision<\/a> from the Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 3. Its judges said the state Constitution authorizes such a referendum and a new election map cannot take effect until the voters have spoken. <\/p>\n

Hoskins filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court and cited the \u201cchaotic fallout\u201d from the state court\u2019s \u201cirresponsible decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who oversees appeals from the 8th Circuit Court based in St. Louis, denied the appeal without comment<\/a> on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

But shortly after his decision was issued, U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary restraining order that prohibited the state from using the any voting map other than the new one.<\/p>\n

People Not Politicians appealed that decision to the Supreme Court. On Sept. 10, Kavanaugh and the full court granted the appeal and blocked the judge\u2019s order<\/a> from taking effect.<\/p>\n

The justices did not explain their reasoning, but the meaning of the order was clear. The state Supreme Court ruling meant the new map could not be used for this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

But that did not stop the 8th Circuit Court from ruling the state must use the new map. <\/p>\n

Siding with several Republican candidates, a 2-1 majority said the use of 2022 map was unconstitutional because the primary elections were held under the new map. Its decision ordered the elections to be held using the new map.<\/p>\n

This was a surprising ruling, since the Supreme Court\u2019s order on Sept. 10 barred judges in Missouri from intervening further in the dispute over the voting maps. <\/p>\n

But after a third trip to the court, the justices said the state must use the 2022 map.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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