Missouri Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voting Map Benefiting Republicans
Missouri’s Supreme Court said a map redrawn to help Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries.
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Missouri’s Supreme Court said a map redrawn to help Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries.
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Sept. 5, 2026
Missouri’s attorney general on Friday asked the Supreme Court to clear a path for the state to use a congressional map in the November election that was redrawn to benefit Republicans.
The emergency request from Catherine Hanaway, a Republican, came one day after the Missouri Supreme Court said that the map used in last month’s primary election was invalid, and that voters should have had an opportunity to weigh in on the new district lines.
The state court’s ruling raised questions about how Missouri could hold a general election using a different map from what was used in the primaries. At least for now, it halted Republican efforts to gain a House seat in the Kansas City area.
Ms. Hanaway urged the justices to block the state court decision, which she said “inflicts unprecedented chaos on Missouri” by disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters who would be moved into new districts and “forced to vote for candidates they had no role in selecting.”
”The State is genuinely unsure whether it can switch its governing congressional map in time to run a timely federal election,” she said in the late Friday filing.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who handles emergency requests from Missouri, set a quick timeline for the court to review the case, requesting a response from challengers by noon on Monday.
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