Missouri officials stated they might proceed with actions related to gerrymandering despite previous decisions.
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PivotSep 4, 2026
As of 2026-09-04, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said she would immediately appeal the Missouri Supreme Court's ruling blocking the GOP congressional map, and the record shows officials kept pursuing the map afterward despite the decisions against them.
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… Postal Service screening system for mail-in ballots, which will be used if Trump's executive order survives the courts, which probably will not. That said, they still may go ahead with it, like today in Missouri, they said they might go ahead with stuff that's already been decided around gerrymandering. The whistleblower says that the system is being rushed out without enough testing under a 0% failure policy. One barcode error could delay thousands of ballots from being sent out. …
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Supports. AP reported that Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway said she would immediately appeal the Missouri Supreme Court's decision blocking the Trump-backed map to the U.S. Supreme Court, calling it a constitutional crisis.[1]
Supports. Reason reported that Hanaway appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court the day after the state high court's September 3 decision, acting on behalf of Secretary of State Hoskins.[2]
Supports. KCUR reported that Republican officials were not giving up on the map they passed last year despite setbacks at the U.S. Supreme Court and a state ruling that the map never took effect.[3]
Context. The Missouri Supreme Court had already ruled unanimously that the new map could not be used in the November election, so the officials' continued pursuit targeted a decided matter.[1][4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Missouri court blocks Trump-backed US House map and ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s Trump-backed gerrymandering fightreason.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3Missouri GOP still see path for gerrymandered congressional ...kcur.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Supreme Court again snubs GOP gerrymander in Missouripolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
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