The drama around Missouri’s Congressional map continues.
Background:
Today: Supreme Court paused the federal judge’s decision, restoring the 2022 map for the November elections.
No sign of a dissent. No reason for the stay.
🚨 The Supreme Court has paused a federal judge’s ruling requiring Missouri to use its 2025 congressional map, allowing the state to return to its 2022 map for the November election while the case continues. pic.twitter.com/U6n5JFMyNY
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) September 10, 2026
Look, I understand SCOTUS not wanting to interfere with a state constitution.
But Missouri already held its primaries using the 2025 Congressional map, not the 2022 map.
That’s why Chief Judge Stephen Clark restored the map a few hours after SCOTUS struck it down in a different case.
Republican candidates and voters filed a separate lawsuit, so it’s not the same one the Missouri Supreme Court heard.
“Plaintiffs face irreparable harm absent a TRO because many Missouri voters would have to cast their general-election votes for candidates whom they had no role in nominating,” wrote Clark. “Candidates who had no choice but to campaign and raise money in the HB 1 districts that Missouri’s highest election authority presented to them, have spent their funds and campaign efforts in districts that would no longer exist.”
Therefore, using any other map than the new map “would disenfranchise primary-election voters and undermine the nominations of candidates chosen in the primaries, leading to ‘certain’ and ‘great’ harm, not merely ‘speculative’ or ‘possible’ harm.”
The Eighth Circuit refused to issue a stay, so the case ended up at SCOTUS.
SCOTUS did not reject the case. A stay means that the lawsuit can proceed in the Eighth Circuit.
But the fact remains that Missouri already used the 2025 map, meaning the decisions could affect federal elections.
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