Trump demands Supreme Court award Missouri the Election Victory it just lost for a third time

As it ran on the front

The chief pulls the file back out because it keeps coming back. On September 5, Missouri filed an emergency application with Justice Kavanaugh, asking the Supreme Court to overturn its own state court and let a new Republican-drawn map stand before November. Four days later, on September 9, the group that beat the first map — People Not Politicians — asked the justices to hold the line instead. By September 23, the fight was back at the Court for the third time that month, both sides asking nine people in Washington to settle what a state legislature keeps refusing to settle itself. On September 25, the justices answered: the 2022 map holds, the 2025 map doesn't, and the unsigned order recited its own history — a map enacted in 2022, a new one enacted in 2025, both now on the losing side of the same docket, the third rejection in a row.

The muscle looks at that structure and doesn't like it: three trips to Washington to referee one state's lines, work the Constitution assigned somewhere else entirely. Sunday morning the president went to Truth Social and called the third loss something else. The Supreme Court "will just not let Missouri have an Election Victory," he wrote, "they continuously, three times now, overrule Judges who came to the correct decisions." Three losses, by his own count, rebranded as a victory the Court is simply withholding. The planner reads it twice and admires the arithmetic even while it argues the opposite of what it proves.…