Missouri spent more than a year fighting over which lines would decide its eight U.S. House seats, and the question came down to a single Thursday afternoon. Within a matter of hours on September 10, the nation's highest court froze a Republican-drawn map for the second time this year, the state's own Supreme Court found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt of its earlier order, and Hoskins reversed himself to avoid punishment. The result: Missouri will hold its November election under the same congressional boundaries used since 2022, even as a separate federal appeal keeps grinding forward.
