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A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered Missouri to use its new GOP-favored congressional map just hours after the Supreme Court denied the state’s emergency application.

US District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking Missouri from using its 2022 congressional map.

Chief Judge Clark issued the TRO with just seven minutes before the 5 pm ballot deadline.

The TRO is for 14 days.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Missouri to use the NEW map for November, 7 minutes before the 5pm ballot deadline, hours after Kavanaugh declined to do the same. Hoskins is now under 2 opposite injunctions. It’s a 14-day TRO on federal grounds. Appeal expected within hourspic.twitter.com/eDWt07yQqk
— Mark Maxwell (@MarkMaxwellTV)September 8, 2026

The Supreme Court earlier TuesdaydeniedMissouri’s emergency appeal to use the GOP-favored Congressional map in this year’s midterm elections.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Missouri’s emergency application without comment.

The showdown began after the Missouri Supreme Court last Thursdaythrew outthe state’s new congressional map that favored the GOP and eliminated one Democrat seat.

Last year, the MissouriHouse of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a sweeping new congressional map that would reduce Democrat representation to just one seat.

In a 90-65 vote, GOP legislators approved a redistricting plan that dismantled the Democrat stronghold of the 5th District in Kansas City, and partitioned it across rural Republican-dominated districts, according toAP News.

Missouri’s Attorney General Catherine Hanaway responded to Judge Clark’s order.

“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,” Hanaway said.

“We maintain that changing the congressional map in between the primary and general elections is simply not feasible and profoundly unjust to Missouri voters,” she added.

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. We maintain that changing the congressional map in between the primary and general elections is simply not feasible and…https://t.co/Ha3V07jaJ9
—Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway (@AGCHanaway)September 8, 2026

The postJUST IN: Federal Judge Orders Missouri to Use NEW GOP-Favored Congressional Map After Supreme Court Denies Emergency Applicationappeared first onThe Gateway Pundit.

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Officials in the Show-Me State had been awaiting the Supreme Court’s ruling on the emergency petition before proceeding with how to conduct the House elections in November.\n\nMissouri Solicitor General Louis Capozzi asked the Supreme Court to halt the state high court’s ruling, warning of a “federal-election-administration disaster.”\n\n“No court in American history has ever given such an extraordinary remedy, which inflicts unprecedented chaos on Missouri,” Capozzi wrote. “Looking backwards, the order renders a completed federal Primary Election utterly pointless — disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters who will now be moved into new districts and forced to vote for candidates they had no role in selecting. 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The justices let stand a decision by Missouri's top court, which said the new districts cannot be used in the November elections because they were superseded by a citizen petition demanding a statewide vote.\nBut shortly after, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark issued a temporary restraining order in a separate challenge to Missouri's Supreme Court decision, writing that the plaintiffs faced \"irreparable harm\" otherwise because \"many Missouri voters would have to cast their general-election votes for candidates whom they had no role in nominating.\"\nThe decision adds further confusion about which boundaries will be used in November.\nThe new House maps, passed by the state legislature last year, would dramatically redraw longtime Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City-area district, making it GOP-leaning.\nMissouri's new districts were used in the August primaries. But the Missouri Supreme Court ruled last week that the state must revert to districts adopted after the last census.\nRepublican state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, had argued it would violate federal rights to switch districts for voters between the primary and general elections. She also said it would cause confusion.\n\"A federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,\" Hanaway wrote in an emergency application for the U.S. Supreme Court to put the ruling on hold, warning it could lead to \"unprecedented chaos\" and render the primary \"utterly pointless.\"\nShe continued: \"Looking forwards, the State is genuinely unsure whether it can switch its governing congressional map in time to run a timely federal election.\"\nRichard Von Glahn, who sued over the new maps, urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to intervene, writing that the state \"waited as long as possible to manufacture the present dispute over Missouri's congressional districting map\" by not moving to reject the petition for a referendum until last month.\nHanaway's request for the U.S. Supreme Court to step in was rejected by Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday.\nMissouri currently is represented in the House by six Republicans and two Democrats who were elected under districts that Republican state officials approved in 2022.\nBut at Mr. Trump's urging, Missouri Gov. 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A lower court agreed, but the state Supreme Court reversed Hoskins' decision.\nThe state's top court said the new districts were retroactively frozen in December, when the petition signatures were submitted, and thus never became law. Hoskins on Tuesday assigned the redistricting referendum as Proposition A on the November ballot, in compliance with the state court order.\nThe Missouri Constitution does not specifically say that a referendum can be used for congressional redistricting. But the state Supreme Court said a constitutional provision allowing a referendum on \"any act\" of the Legislature encompasses congressional redistricting legislation.\nMissouri was the second Republican-led state, after Texas, to respond to Mr. Trump's call last year to redraw congressional districts. Several other states followed. All told, Republicans had hoped to win as many as 16 additional seats from new House maps enacted in eight states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama.\nDemocrats, whose counterattack faced several setbacks, think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah.\nIt remains to be seen whether the redistricting works as intended for Republicans. The president's party historically has lost congressional seats in the midterms, and Mr. Trump's poor approval ratings could provide an extra hurdle for Republican candidates.",[],"selectedArticleImage","rootArticleImageUrl","consensusHtml","tweets",[],"userSchema","perspectivesColumns","intro","relatedArticles",[284,320,366,342],"actionData","errors"]

Federal Judge Temporarily Allows Missouri GOP Congressional Map

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