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THE MAP FIGHT
Missouri Supreme Court unanimously kills GOP map after Republicans already used it to win their primary
As it ran on the front
Missouri's congressional map, the one drawn this year to hand Republicans a House seat and pushed hardest by President Trump, was pronounced dead Thursday evening by the Missouri Supreme Court, unanimously. It was used exactly once, in last month's primary, and then no more. Voters will decide its fate in November, on a referendum the court ordered onto the ballot, under the state's old lines drawn after the 2020 census — the closest thing this map has to a family plot.
It is survived by an attorney general who has already vowed to appeal, and by a president who called the ruling "ridiculous" before the ink on it was dry, which is its own kind of eulogy.…
…(cont) It is preceded in death by a distant cousin in North Carolina, whose map the U.S. Supreme Court refused to let the state use in 2016, forcing the legislature to redraw its lines and the primary itself to move from March to June. And by an in-law in Wisconsin, where in April 2020 the state's high court overturned the governor's order to postpone a primary the same day the U.S. Supreme Court restored the original ballot deadline a lower court had extended, and ordered every absentee ballot postmarked after that restored date thrown out. Two courts, one afternoon, one deadline moved back to where it started and then enforced against whoever hadn't made it.
Ten years is not long, as institutions measure their dying, but this family has now buried maps and deadlines in three states on the same general theory: that whoever draws the lines does not automatically get to keep them. Maryland's Supreme Court made the point from the other direction that same evening, reviving a Democratic-drawn referendum a lower court had blocked, with new wording, back onto November's ballot. One map dies, one referendum lives, both by the same gavel this whole family answers to whenever it bothers to show up.
Whippersnappers in both parties will tell you this is just how the system works, malarkey it may be, but the pattern is now old enough to vote. What the courts keep saying, unanimously, in one state after another, is that an election is not a formality performed after the maps are settled — it is the thing the maps are for.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you show up in November and read the ballot all the way to the bottom, where the referendum question is.
— mort
“This is the same trick every time: draw the map, run the primary on it, and hope nobody looks twice before November. Missouri's court looked twice — after the votes were already counted under the map they just killed. Ten years of this, North Carolina to Wisconsin to Missouri, and the party holding the pen keeps trying to finish picking its voters before the voters get to pick anybody.”
“The map was legal when we passed it, the court just moved the goalposts mid-game — wait, they're saying we moved the district lines, that's not the same thing at all. It was already used once, in the primary, so clearly it worked fine then. Voters get their say in November now, which is exactly the outcome we wanted all along, obviously, that's not spin, why would I say that.”
The receipts
The Missouri Supreme Court dealt a blow to President Trump and Republicans Thursday, ruling the GOP could not issue a new map aimed at giving the party an additional seat in the House until the congressional lines are approved by voters in November. The decision is a setback for Republicans, who had sought to quickly...
The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday evening to keep a Democrat-led redistricting referendum on the ballot this November but with different wording. The ruling, which overturns a lower court’s decision to block this proposed ballot question, is a major victory in the Democratic Party’s efforts to boost their chances at reclaiming…
The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday squashed Republicans‘ plans to implement a new congressional map before November, ruling voters must first decide on whether to approve the new district lines. The unanimous decision means Missouri will use its previous congressional map, drawn after the 2020 census, for the 2026 midterm elections.…
The court said a map redrawn to benefit Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries. The state attorney general vowed to appeal the decision.
The court said a referendum seeking to put the map up for a vote must be placed on the ballot, meaning the state’s elections this fall will take place under its old congressional lines.
President Trump on Thursday condemned the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision to block new congressional lines drawn to benefit Republicans from being used in the state’s November election. The state’s highest court unanimously ruled Thursday evening that this map, which were used in the state’s primary elections last month, “did not go…
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked the GOP-drawn map, and President Donald Trump called the ruling "ridiculous" before November's vote.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that voters can decide the fate of the GOP-passed gerrymander via a referendum this fall.
The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked a new House map backed by President Trump from being used in the November election, a setback in Republicans' efforts to pick up an additional House seat.
In a unanimous decision, the court ordered that a statewide referendum be held in November to determine the ultimate fate of the new map.
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· Following the United States Supreme Court's denial of North Carolina's request to use the current district map, the state's legislature meets the deadline for a court-ordered reapportionment of its co from the morgue, 19 Feb 2016
· The Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns Governor Tony Evers's order to postpone tomorrow's primary elections. Furthermore, the Supreme Court of the United States rules 5–4 in favor of the Republican Nat from the morgue, 6 Apr 2020
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