A high-stakes legal fight over Missouri's congressional map was engulfed in chaos late Tuesday after the US Supreme Court and a lower federal court issued conflicting decisions on whether the state can use aggressively gerrymandered district lines that Republicans drew last year at the behest of President Donald Trump. US Supreme Court…
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White House loses gerrymander fight to its own Supreme Court pick, answers with video games.
“They lost the map to their own guy on the Court and the response wasn't a fix, it was a website update — that's not chaos, that's a company deciding the product doesn't have to work if the ad still runs. Hundreds of DHS agents got staffed onto a fraud they can't find while a state's voters can't find their own district, and somewhere in that gap is where the actual election gets decided. When the lines don't matter but the arcade does, you're not watching a government, you're watching a launch schedule.”
“Look, the map is a Missouri legal matter, it's in the courts, that's the system working — did I say the courts, because two days ago I said the courts were the problem. The games are just voter engagement, civic education for a modern electorate, and if "Fill a Trump Account" happens to be one of the five modules, well, financial literacy is nonpartisan. The administration is walking and chewing gum: litigating the map and shipping the arcade, that's called multitasking, not — okay, that's not landing the way I wanted it to.”
The receipts
The legal wrangling over a congressional map redrawn by Republicans has election officials, candidates and voters scrambling before November.
· Trump 'Laying the Groundwork for Election Meddling' With DHS Hunt for Noncitizen Voters from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Elections Analyst Says Trump Has 'Uniquely Hurt' His Own Voters Ahead of 2026 from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· White House puts Trump-style classic video games on website ahead of midterms from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
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