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Federal Judge Orders Reinstatement of Redrawn Missouri Congressional Map
Just the facts
The Missouri Supreme Court had ruled that a referendum petition retroactively suspended the state's new congressional map, which altered Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City-area 5th District. Following the Supreme Court's decision to let that ruling stand, Judge Clark held that voters faced irreparable harm without using the new map for the November elections. Opponents led by the group People Not Politicians filed an immediate appeal to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, where Justice Brett Kavanaugh requested formal responses from proponents by Thursday morning. Missouri currently holds six Republican and two Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Why this is news
U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark issued a temporary restraining order directing Missouri to implement a newly redrawn, Republican-backed congressional map, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court declined an emergency application to block a state court ruling.
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