Missouri Supreme Court Upholds New Congressional Map
“This court’s review of the Missouri residents’ appeals is limited to determining only the legality – not the prudence or popularity – of the map.”
The Missouri Supreme Court once again upheld the state’s new Congressional map, which would break-up the Kansas City Democratic seat and give Republicans a 7-1 advantage.
In March, the court ruled that the General Assembly can redistrict more than once a decade.
These two decisions answered these challenges:
The court was unanimous in the two decisions delivered just a few hours after oral arguments. It was being asked in one case to toss the gerrymandered map entirely as a violation of the constitutional provision that districts be “compact and as nearly equal in population as may be.”
In the other, the court was asked to suspend the map because 300,000 signatures seeking to force a referendum were delivered to Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on Dec. 9, two days before the law was to take effect.
“This court’s review of the Missouri residents’ appeals is limited to determining only the legality – not the prudence or popularity – of the map,” wrote Chief Justice W. Brent Powell. “Because the 2025 Map was not drawn in a manner violative of article III, section 45 of the Missouri Constitution, the circuit court’s judgment is affirmed.”
Judge Ginger K. Gooch wrote that Missouri’s constitution does not say anything about freezing a law when someone submits a petition.
“Nothing in article III, sections 49, 52(a), or 52(b) provides the filing of a referendum petition alone automatically suspends the act of the General Assembly at issue in the petition,” she stated. “Had the drafters intended a referendum petition filing to automatically suspend any act of the General Assembly at issue in the referendum petition, they would have so stated.”
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The new district maps in Missouri, Texas, Alabama and other republican states show very little, if any, geographical gerrymandering. South Carolina required extensive gerrymandering to get the one district for Clyburn. The rest of the South Carolina districts are not gerrymandered.
The Virginia redistricting map is egregiously gerrymandered.
My thoughts exactly.
Tennessee is pretty badly gerrymandered. I am now in a district that includes parts of Franklin, parts of Clarksville and parts of Memphis. There is now a district that stretches across all three Grand Divisions. I am willing to accept it as necessary but think of it like dropping A-bombs on Japan – it was bad, but it needed to be done.
BOOM. Just as I predicted. I voted for this.
As a younger man, I lived in the old 5th for many years. Simply put, Kansas City, Missouri (distinct from kansas city, kansas – long story) occupies most of Jackson County, and the 5th district occupies most of that county.
That’s 3 levels of government concentrated in a very small area. This fact was not lost on the left. They moved into all levels of government like locusts, and devoured every one and thing which were productive, leaving behind an entitlement craphole, crumbling infrastructure, curtailed services, and soaring taxes. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver(D) has been the chief locust for 20 years.
I like this new map much better. Bye bye, Cleaver!
Is it just me or is this gerrymandering thing blowing up in the faces of Democrats??
Like an exploding cigar.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of communists, Islamofascists, subversives and totalitarians.
https://comicallyincorrect.com/branco-cartoon-in-their-face/
Let’s see home many Black Republicans run in certain districts. It’d be nice to see a Republican majority Black Caucus in Congress!
They can prevent black democrats from joining them as the black democrats currently prevent black republicans from joining.
I’d love to hear actual details on that.
Oh, I understand now. The caucus. Not the ballot.
You think they let black republicans in the CBC? How naieve…
Rainbows and unicorns, baby! 😆
I never imagined I would live to see the day when VRA districts would be declared Un-Constitutional.
It is absolutely glorious.
And the fact that the absolute worst of the worst of the worst Congressmen ever to disgrace the Capital all have (about to be: HAD) safe seats in these districts is just gravy.
We should all reach out and personally thank Mark Elias for triggering this with his overreach on elections lawsuits. If he hadn’t been pushing so hard, I doubt this would have happened. At least, not now.