By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning,
After a year of legal warfare over Missouri’s congressional map, the state is right back where it started.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Missouri should use its 2022 congressional districts in November, blocking the Republican-drawn 2025 map that was designed to improve the GOP’s chances of winning a seventh U.S. House seat.
The decision caps weeks of whiplash in which courts repeatedly changed which map governed the election, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was held in contempt and election officials were left trying to prepare ballots amid conflicting orders.
The gerrymandered map is dead, for now at least.
(Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)
by Rudi Keller
The ruling ends weeks of conflicting court orders over which districts voters will use and leaves the state’s 2022 congressional map in place.
(Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent)
by Anna Spoerre
In 2024, The Fairness Project gave more than $4.5 million to a citizen-led ballot effort to overturn the state’s abortion ban. This year, it has donated $5.3 million to Stop the Ban, making it the largest donor to the campaign seeking to defeat Amendment 3.
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
COMMENTARY
by Torree Pederson
Missouri education is entering a period of significant change. That makes the search for the state’s next Commissioner of Education more than a personnel decision
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