AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Supreme Court blocks Missouri's GOP-drawn congressional map for the second time
The U.S. Supreme Court shut down a Republican-drawn Missouri congressional map for the second time in three days, leaving voters to decide the redistricting fight at the ballot box this November. The court issued a brief, unsigned order on September 10 suspending a federal judge's ruling that would have forced Missouri to use the new […] The post Supreme Court blocks Missouri's GOP-drawn congressional map for the second time appeared first on American Almanac .
The U.S. Supreme Court shut down a Republican-drawn Missouri congressional map for the second time in three days, leaving voters to decide the redistricting fight at the ballot box this November. The court issued a brief, unsigned order on September 10 suspending a federal judge's ruling that would have forced Missouri to use the new map in the midterm elections. No justice publicly dissented. The order offered no explanation, just a two-word result that ended, at least for now, a weeks-long legal tug-of-war between state and federal courts over which congressional boundaries Missouri voters will use in November. The decision marks the second time in three days the Supreme Court sided against the map. On September 8, Justice Brett…Open