Appeals court weighs Trump-backed Missouri congressional map despite Supreme Court block
The panel weighed whether ballots can be reprinted in time after officials said 1.2 million voters used the disputed map in the primary.
- Missouri election clerks warned the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday that reverting to the 2025 map is impossible, as ballots for the November general election are already in production using 2022 district lines.
- Secretary of State Denny Hoskins asked the 8th Circuit to revive the 2025 map, arguing that suspending a legislative map via referendum violates the U.S. Constitution's Elections Clause.
- County clerks emphasized that reprinting ballots would cost $15,000 to $30,000 in larger jurisdictions and would miss Friday's deadline for mailing military and overseas ballots.
- Attorneys for People Not Politicians argue that federal courts should not disrupt state election administration this close to voting, while Republican candidates claim different primary and general maps violate constitutional rights.
- A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments Thursday morning, though legal experts say the federal effort to restore the 2025 map faces significant hurdles given the election timeline.
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Everyone in Missouri understands that this game of election map tractor chicken is over. The Supreme Court has told elected officials twice to quit screwing around and run the midterms with the old maps. But the Eighth Circuit is still trying to copulate with that chicken and ruin Justice Kavanaugh’s weekend. The barnyard funtimes started last year when Trump demanded that Republicans gerrymander congressional districts even more aggressively, s…
Eighth Circuit grapples with Missouri's last-ditch attempt to revive new map
A federal appeals court panel weighed on Thursday whether to keep alive Missouri’s attempt to reinstate a new congressional map that would net Republicans a House seat, potentially sending the messy legal saga to the Supreme Court for a third time. The legal battle over which congressional map Missouri will use for the November election […]
Supreme Court didn’t mean to deliver 'death knell for the GOP' : Trump judges
President Donald Trump and his supporters are trying to make sure Republican cannot lose the 2026 midterm elections, including by gerrymandering key races so that Democrats are less likely to win those races. In Missouri, this took the form of trying to force pro-Republican maps on the state's House races even after the Supreme Court found that they could not legally do so.Now, according to a group of MAGA judges, the Supreme Court's ruling sayi…
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