Missouri Supreme Court Upholds State’s Redistricted Map

Mike Kehoe and passed by GOP lawmakers last year, was specifically designed to flip one of Missouri’s two Democrat-held congressional districts and create a 7-1 Republican advantage in the state’s congressional delegation

“We have racial gerrymandering right now in St

Louis in Congressional District 1,” Hoskins added. “The U. S. Supreme Court ruled that there is no more racial gerrymandering.” The Missouri Supreme Court’s decisions rejected arguments from the ACLU and activist groups that a referendum petition automatically suspended the congressional map after organizers submitted more than 300,000 signatures last December seeking to overturn the law. Democrat-aligned plaintiffs argued the map should have been frozen immediately upon submission of the referendum petitions.