JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With a week left in this year’s legislative session, Missouri lawmakers will try one more time to approve a congressional map.
If the map flounders in the fractured Senate or fails to pick up steam in the House due to concerns about political gerrymandering, the state’s congressional boundaries will likely be drawn by the courts. Three lawsuits already seek a solution in the courts if the legislature fails.
This week, after months of bitter Republican infighting, the House Redistricting Committee advanced a new compromise map that seeks to fix some of the concerns from both chambers. As proposed, the district lines appear to preserve the state’s current mix of six Republican and two Democratic members of Congress.
