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Missouri's Congressional Map Fight Just Ended (For Now) — Here's What Happens to Your November Ballot

Missouri's top election official faces contempt today as a state court order and a federal ruling clash over which map governs November's election.

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Supreme Court Blocks Missouri's Messy, Trump-Backed Gerrymandering Fight

The decision ends a yearlong legal war spanning multiple lawsuits, contradictory state and federal court orders, and repeated appeals to the Supreme Court.

Reason

Donald Trump’s attempt to unseat a prominent black congressman suffers a major court defeat. Then he breaks his silence: ‘horrible, ridiculous’

The legal fight over Missouri’s map continues.

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The Contempt Judgment From Missouri

The Secretary of State was subject to dueling injunctions from state and federal court. It was a lose-lose.

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US Supreme Court blocks Republican-drawn congressional map in Missouri

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Missouri's redrawn congressional map favoring Republicans. This decision dealt a setback to President Donald Trump and Republican House odds. The justices suspended a federal judge's decision allowing the map's use in elections. Challengers had sought the Supreme Court's intervention after a state judge's ruling. The…

The Economic Times

Federal judge allows Missouri’s top court to hold contempt hearing in redistricting dispute

A federal judge has allowed Missouri’s top court to proceed with a contempt hearing for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in a dispute over new congressional districts supported by President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Republicans lose SCOTUS bid to use new Missouri map

The Supreme Court paused on Thursday an order from a federal trial court requiring Missouri to use a congressional map that favored Republicans. Thursday’s order leaves in place a state Supreme Court ruling that held the map adopted by the Republican-held legislature in 2025 was not legal because of a…

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Missouri's congressional map remains unsettled after courts issue conflicting orders

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Missouri's congressional map back before US Supreme Court, sowing still more confusion

Missouri's congressional redistricting dispute has reached the US Supreme Court. Conflicting court rulings have confused voters about upcoming election districts. Republicans backed a new map, while opponents sought a public vote on it. The state's top court initially sided with opponents, but federal courts issued contradictory orders. This legal uncertainty…

The Economic Times

MAGA Reportedly Having a Total Meltdown Because Brett Kavanaugh Just Blocked Their Missouri Election Maps

Justice Brett Kavanaugh's rejection of Missouri Republicans' redistricting request has sparked outrage among MAGA supporters, leaving the state's map status unresolved.

International Business Times UK

Supreme Court Just Handed Republicans a Rare and Massive Defeat Over a Disputed Congressional Map

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Missouri's request to use a new congressional map, leading to legal uncertainty as a federal judge issued a conflicting order, impacting the state's upcoming elections.

International Business Times UK

Federal judge orders Missouri to use map targeting Dem House seat

A federal court in Missouri ordered the state to use a GOP-preferred congressional map Tuesday following a state court ruling that would have axed the plan for this fall. The ruling, from Judge Stephen R. Clark for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, came minutes after…

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In blow to Trump, Missouri top court blocks Republican-drawn congressional map

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a Republican-backed congressional map from taking effect in November’s midterm elections, potentially preserving Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-area seat. The unanimous ruling requires voters to approve the map in a referendum, dealing a setback to Republicans seeking to protect their narrow House…

The Economic Times

Republicans lean on anti-trans sentiment

GOP lawmakers have packaged two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion

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Missouri court rejects petition proposing protections for laws passed by citizen initiative

A Missouri court has rejected a request to let voters decide in November whether to make it harder for lawmakers to change laws enacted by citizen initiatives

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger restores voting rights to thousands of individuals with felony convictions

Welcome to Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia's Weekly Election Policy Digest. Every Tuesday, we deliver the latest updates on election policy around the country, including nationwide trends and recent legislative activity.

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Over the past two weeks, one new ballot measure in Maryland, one removed in Arizona

As of August 4, 149 statewide measures have been certified for the ballot in 39 states, 14 more measures than the average number certified at this point in other even-numbered years over the past decade (2014 to 2024).

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Trump’s redistricting push sees mixed results in South Carolina and Missouri

President Donald Trump’s push to redraw U.S. House districts yielded mixed results on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Missouri Supreme Court to hear arguments over new electoral map as redistricting battles rage on

Republicans anticipate gaining as many as 14 seats from new House maps already enacted in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and Tennessee

The Texas Tribune

A federal tool to check voter citizenship keeps making mistakes. It led to confusion in Texas.

DHS rolled out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

Tribune News Service

Missouri would be only state in country that taxes food but not guns under GOP bill

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri would be the only state in the country that taxes food but does not tax gun sales under a bill being considered by the Missouri Senate.

Tribune News Service

Republican nominee for Missouri auditor wants to investigate schools, ‘Critical Race Theory’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Republican Scott Fitzpatrick has vowed to audit Missouri school districts if elected as the state’s next auditor.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

‘This place was ugly at times’: Missouri lawmakers close book on contentious session

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers ended a contentious legislative session Friday having spent much of their five months in the Capitol fighting over the boundaries for the state’s new congressional maps.

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