On September 8, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark, a Trump appointee, ordered Missouri to use the 2025 U.S. House district boundaries. This lawsuit was filed by a Missouri Republican member of Congress on September 4, one day after the Missouri Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the 2022 maps. Onder v State of Missouri, e.d., 4:26cv-1424.
Judge Clark acknowledged that the U.S. Supreme Court had that very same day declined to get involved in the controversy. Judge Clark bases his order on the fact that the primary this year used the 2025 map. He does not acknowledge two instances when in similar situations, U.S. District Courts had enjoined the use of U.S. House maps even after the primary was over (in Georgia in 1982 and Texas in 1996). He quotes the Missouri election code, section 115.339, as saying “All candidates for elective office shall be nominated at a primary election. But just as the state did in its U.S. Supreme Court filings, he doesn’t quote the entire sentence. He omits the preliminary phrase, “Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter”. In Missouri, new parties do not nominate candidates in a primary. Instead new parties nominate by convention.
The Missouri voters who object to the 2025 maps have asked Judge Clark to stay his own ruling. They point out that federal law requires 3-judge U.S. District Courts to adjudicate the constitutionality of U.S. House district maps.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/supreme-court-rejects-bid-revive-220915515.html
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NEW GERRYMANDER ELECTION IN 2027 ???
https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-18481/decennial-census-of-the-population-of-americans-proposed-residence-criteria-and-proposed-regulations
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A 3-judge panel of a federal district court had ruled the Texas gerrymonster unconstitutional in December 1994. The legislature could have drawn new districts in the 1995 legislative session, but did not do so. Instead the attorney general appealed the case to the SCOTUS, which heard the case in December 1995, and issued their opinion in June 1995 affirming the district court decision.
There was no indication that a special session would be called to correct the unconstitutional districts. Legislative leaders promised they might draw a new map in 1997 just in time for the 1998 elections, maybe. The legislature had 18 months to correct the maps and did not do so. The 1996 primaries had been conducted using an unconstitutional map. The federal district court had to draw a new map, using as much of the old map as they could. The federal could have required use of the full nomination system. Instead, they fashioned an election system from other statutes.
In Missouri, the Supreme Court said “don’t do this”. They did not say what to do instead.
The governor could decree that primaries be held and issue a schedule of filing deadlines, primary dates, a delayed general election, etc. The legislature could pass new legislation (this might require calling the legislature into session), or court could order some sort of new system.
On this 25th anniversary of 9/12 we must unite as Americans to expel the brown skinned crap colored invaders from our White Christian country, restore White Christian leadership, make it official that we are a White Christian led nation by original intent and in perpetuity, and ban Islam as a foreign terrorist organization.