Missouri map challengers ask Supreme Court to halt Republican-favoring boundaries

  • People Not Politicians and other challengers asked the Supreme Court to suspend Missouri’s map order.
  • Stephen Clark’s order allowed only reconfigured congressional boundaries for November elections.
  • Missouri’s proposed map would create a 7-1 Republican House advantage instead of the existing 6-2 arrangement.

Challengers to Missouri’s Republican-drawn congressional map asked the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend a federal judge’s order requiring the reconfigured boundaries to be used in November’s midterm elections. The emergency filing was submitted by People Not Politicians and others soon after Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark issued his decision. Earlier coverage described Justice Brett Kavanaugh as refusing to lift a block on the map, which would give Republicans a 7-1 House delegation instead of the existing 6-2 arrangement; the latest filing reflects a subsequent federal-court development and leaves the dispute unresolved. Missouri held its primaries under the contested map, creating uncertainty over how primary winners will be assigned if boundaries change before November. The case is part of a broader mid-decade redistricting fight involving President Trump and national Republicans, who are pressing GOP-led states to seek House gains ahead of the midterms.

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