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How The Missouri Midterms Wound Up A Constitutional Crisis

Almost a year ago, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a new congressional map into law. The lawsuits began almost immediately.

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Last week, Missouri found itself spiraling into a constitutional crisis created by the Missouri Supreme Court, and the people of the Show-Me State deserve better. How we got to this point is a highly complicated litigation story. Almost a year ago, Gov. Mike Kehoe signed into law a new congressional map, the Missouri First Map, as the state has called it, which would have created a 7-1 map in favor of Republicans as opposed to the 6-2 that was previously in effect. The lawsuits began almost immediately.

Four separate challenges were filed in September 2025. The first, NAACP v. Kehoe, argued Missouri’s governor lacked the authority to call the legislature into special session to draw a new congressional map. A trial court disagreed, and in May 2026 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Gov. Kehoe had the power to call the legislature into special session.

The second, Luther v. Hoskins, claimed Missouri’s constitution barred mid-decade redistricting. Again, a trial court disagreed and in March 2026 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Missouri’s constitution did not prohibit mid-decade redistricting.

The third, Wise v. Missouri, alleged that the map was drawn mid-decade in violation of the Missouri constitution, that the map was inadequately compact, and that the map was both noncontiguous and malapportioned.

Finally, Healey v. Missouri also claimed Missouri’s new map was unconstitutionally drawn mid-decade (echoing Luther and Wise) and that the map was not adequately compact under Missouri’s constitutional compactness requirement (like Wise). The trial court consolidated Healey and Wise and found the Missouri First Map complied with the Missouri constitution. The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the trial court in Healey and Wise in May 2026.

There were also multiple challenges filed regarding the referendum process in Missouri, but only one of those is relevant here.

On Dec. 23, 2025, Maggard v. Missouri was filed, claiming that........

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