Missouri Voters Immediately Sue Over New Gerrymandered Map
A group of Missouri voters filed a lawsuit against the newly gerrymandered map in Missouri because it is unconstitutional.
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It didn’t take long. Immediately after the Trump requested newly gerrmandered congressional map of Missouri was passed into law, a group of voters who will see their current congressional district carved up to create a new seat for Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging the new map.
According to the Campaign Legal Center:
A group of Missouri voters filed a legal challenge today to the state’s mid-decade redistricting effort, arguing that state officials’ attempt to implement a new congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections violates the Missouri Constitution.
The voters are residents of Kansas City and currently reside in Congressional District 5, which is the target of the unprecedented mid-decade redistricting effort, but would be split…
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