Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri map a third time
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a third attempt to impose a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the November midterms, leaving the state’s existing districts in place as absentee voting proceeds. Sources linked below keep Saturday readers on the confirmed record.
The Supreme Court on Friday halted an Eighth Circuit ruling that would have revived a Republican-friendly Missouri congressional map, allowing a Missouri Supreme Court decision requiring a November referendum on the new map to stand, the Times of India and U.S. wires reported into Saturday.
The justices’ intervention is their third block of efforts to seat the new map; Missouri voters will therefore use the same congressional boundaries employed in 2022 and 2024. Absentee voting is already underway under those lines.
Republicans had sought the redraw to improve midterm House odds; Democrats and state-court petitioners argued the citizen-petition process must run first. Accounts agree the prior map stands for November; they diverge on whether further emergency filings can still scramble ballots.
Where outlets agree Reuters, AP/PBS, Fox News, and SCOTUSblog agree the Supreme Court again blocked the Trump-backed Missouri congressional map, keeping 2022 districts for November.
Where they differ Outlets differ on political fallout for midterms control and how much further emergency litigation could still matter with absentee voting already underway.