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A federal district judge reinstated Missouri’s GOP-friendly congressional map for the 2026 midterms on Tuesday. The ruling came moments after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected an emergency request to do so in a separate case on the issue.

“Missouri is prepared to follow and comply with Chief Judge Clark’s order that binds the state to using the Missouri FIRST map for the November General Election,” Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said in a statement. “We maintain that changing the congressional map in between the primary and general elections is simply not feasible and profoundly unjust to Missouri voters.”

The Missouri Legislature and GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe approved the new map in question in September 2025. If permitted to go into effect, it would move the state from a six Republican-two Democrat map to a seven Republican-one Democrat map.

A group of activists submitted signatures in support of a petition later that year to place a statewide referendum for the new maps on the state’s 2026 fall ballot. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected the petition last month, arguing that the state constitution “does not authorize a referendum on congressional redistricting plans passed by the General Assembly.”

The Missouri Supreme Court disagreed in its ruling last week, in which it blocked the new map from being used in the upcoming midterm elections. The state court held that “the plain language of … the Missouri Constitution authorizes a........

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