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NEW: The Eighth Circuit has expedited its review of the Missouri congressional map dispute following the Supreme Court’s stay. Merits briefs are due Tuesday, with remote oral argument set for Thursday, Sept. 17.
Posted on 09/10/2026 9:13:36 AM PDT by DFG
The U.S. Supreme Court again rejected Missouri congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, a loss for Republicans trying to maintain control of the House in the pivotal midterm elections.
The decision appears to clear the way for the state to use a map passed in 2022, as the state's highest court ordered.
It's part of a pitched legal battle that has created confusion for voters and others shortly before ballots begin going out for the November elections. The Trump administration had urged the court to keep the president's preferred maps, which were aimed at gaining one additional GOP House seat.
No Supreme Court justices publicly dissented from the brief order. It did not detail the court's legal reasoning, as is typical in emergency appeals.
Meanwhile, the legal fight featuring dueling orders from different courts continued to unfold in Missouri with a contempt hearing for Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins.
The state's highest court ordered him to answer for sticking with the Trump-backed map rather than following its orders to use districts passed after the last census.
But until the Supreme Court weighed in, Hoskins could point to a competing order from a federal judge requiring the use of the new map.
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Bass turds in the SCOTUS already work for the Socialist DemonRATS. I don’t know why the far left skin heads think they need more.
Insane, they already had the primaries. Nothing is more important to the Deep State than giving the House to the rats.
How much are the demon-rats paying scotus?
Aside from the question of “Who verified the ‘300.000 signatures’” this is a very alarming turn of events because it begins to raise the question that no one has talked about.
That question is “Is the New Axis of Evil Democrats communists and Muslims threatening Kavanaugh and Barrett’s children as they did to make them come up with the ridiculous “No standing” position?
This will also fuel the fire for a 10th Amendment; Co-Equal branches of government show down and Trump is the only president in history with the courage to fight it out.
Here is an article by Prof Josh Blackman explaining the courts’ actions.
“A Remarkable 48 Hours In Missouri”
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/10/a-remarkable-48-hours-in-missouri/
It’s a longstanding rule in the court that state supreme courts are the final authority on interpreting their own state constitutions and laws. That’s all the court did here, uphold that principle.
So they already had primaries with the new maps and now it will be switched. Make it make sense.
Yep
It’s a longstanding rule in the court that state supreme courts are the final authority on interpreting their own state constitutions and laws. That’s all the court did here, uphold that principle.
Loss of representation. You voted for the person in the primary. Does that representative change to someone you didn’t vote for. I see many lawsuits.
“It’s a longstanding rule in the court that state supreme courts are the final authority on interpreting their own state constitutions and laws. That’s all the court did here, uphold that principle.”
Interesting, because the clause in the U.S. Constitution gives the state legislature the authority to establish or change laws regarding congressional maps within their state and makes no mention of the state supreme court having authority to overrule it. So it appears SCOTUS is interfering with the legislature’s authority.
The liberals through a fit months ago when SCOTUS overturned the old maps in Alabama, because it happened a few days after the primary had *STARTED* - not completed - just *STARTED* - “oh the humanity that people voted and will have their vote stolen because they’ll GET TO VOTE AGAIN!! AHHH!” And now they will have ZERO problem we’re throwing out everyone’s vote who voted in the “wrong” district.
If Democrats didn’t have double standards they’d have no standards at all.
It’s also a long-standing rule in the Court - Purcell - that we don’t change rules too close to the election. This happened BETWEEN the primary and the general election. How much loser does “too close” have to be? Literally IN THE MIDDLE OF isn’t too close?
I would guess that up to 1/3 of people are now going to be voting in a different district than the one they voted in the primary.
The problem is that nowhere in the Constitution nor in case law does *primary voting* actually matter.
The concept is relatively new (in grand Republic terms).
Much as it sucks in this specific case? I’d be hesitant to enshrine two-party primacy as a federal fiat and I’m likewise a bit skittish - 10th Amendment issue - to have the federal courts go full ‘write new law from the bench’.
“So they already had primaries with the new maps and now it will be switched. Make it make sense.”
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Missouri officials jumped the gun and attempted to implement the new districts without holding an approval referendum on the changes first. Under Missouri law, redistricting maps have to be approved by voters before they’re legitimate. That didn’t happen here, which is why the Missouri Supreme Court rejected the new maps.
Ah, the troll is out to explain how Republicans/Conservatives were wrong. Such a nice service you provide. How is life under the bridge?
But the primaries had already been held on those maps. So the solution is to disenfranchise up to 1/3 of the primary voters??
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NEW: The Eighth Circuit has expedited its review of the Missouri congressional map dispute following the Supreme Court’s stay. Merits briefs are due Tuesday, with remote oral argument set for Thursday, Sept. 17.
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