Justice Kavanaugh blocks Missouri map favoring Republicans
Mark Maxwell of KSDK News says "A federal judge (Trump appointee) has ordered Missouri to use the NEW map for November, 7 minutes before the 5pm ballot deadline, hours after Kavanaugh declined to do the same. Hoskins is now under 2 opposite injunctions. Appeal expected within hours.
King-Free USA - Protest & Vote!49JFC. Well, the MAGA panic is real, at least.
T-Fish🇨🇦🍁36Of course. Can’t have a sliver of good news to get comfortable with after all
achingbob.bsky.social35Their desperation to cheat is a harbinger of the midterms and the general elections.
Angry_Gammy ❌👑24They can't win unless they cheat, right up to the last few minutes!
Jared Jensen18Imagine if they put a fraction of this effort into responsible governing.
CharChar18Can they do that after the Supremes say no?
A shocking win! Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh just rejected Missouri Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to force through Trump’s gerrymandered congressional map for the November midterms. That means the old 2022 map stays in place, and the GOP’s attempt to redraw
Alt National Park Service361Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s district into a Republican pickup is dead for this election. Even better, Missouri voters will now get the final say on the new map through a statewide referendum in November. When even Brett Kavanaugh won’t save your gerrymander, you know things have gone badly.
jennoe98.bsky.social29Our local news in KC is reporting on the 6pm (central time) that another MO federal judge issued a ruling after the Supreme Court decision this afternoon that will reinstate the 2025 maps that both the state Supreme Court & Supreme Court said could not be used. It’s a crazy cluster in MO right now.
Tootiepeggy 17Harry Litman is saying another Trump judge just reinstated the map under federal law which will make it go back to SCOTUS. They are hoping to get Thomas or Alito. 🙄 They never ever stop!
Say The Thing Tee12I don't even know what this means, other than MO Repubs are mega assholes...
Robert6Hopefully we'll start to see more Republicans distance themselves from anything Trump wants. After the midterms if it goes the way projected. Republicans are going to go into save their own ass mode. The worse it goes for them the better it goes for democracy. Remember they did this to themselves
Sande4This should be the end of it.
NEW: Missouri’s congressional redistricting fight escalated again Tuesday night as opponents of the GOP gerrymander asked a federal judge to pause his order requiring the map to be used in November — while also taking the fight to a federal appeals court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
C-Lee13FFS. They never stop. Courts need to start fighting back with frivolous lawsuit charges and fines. What the hell happened to our legal system. It just goes on and on and on and on … let this dastardly period in history disintegrate into an ash heap and get blown away to eternity.
Corey O'Neill7Missouri's POS SoS is already gleefully boasting he's going to use the new Trump demanded map:
⚔️KnightHawk🦅6I hate this state so much. The Missouri GOP is hell bent on overruling their own voters and the worst part is most of the voters don't even know! Incredible stuff!
Tracy5Federal judge in St. Louis says 25 map, but Kavanaugh says 22 map is correct for the November. Doesn’t the SCOTUS is the final say??
Steve C-KC5How does a district court judge cockblock Kavanaugh?
mustangrick.bsky.social4? SCOTUS killed it, right?
NEW: Justice Kavanaugh, on his own as circuit justice, denied the Missouri secretary of state’s application seeking to allow the state to use maps adopted by Republicans aimed at benefiting state Republicans in this election. The RNC had also backed the SoS’s request.
Chris Geidner87Shortly thereafter, however, in a federal court case, a district court judge ordered the use of the 2026 map. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Devonian Stone2who did what now pinch me am i dreaming
Sean Casten32This is good for democracy. But also good for Congress as a body - you'd be hard pressed to find a kinder, more decent human being than Rev Cleaver. Congress is better with him.
Cheryl B. Klein5A couple years ago, a Missouri state senator introduced legislation designed to force my mother off the local library board because she wouldn't ban books. (It didn't go anywhere.) Today, Kavanaugh ruled the redistricting map designed for *that guy* to win a House seat is illegal. Karma, mofo! Ha!
JUST IN: Appeal by opponents of Missouri GOP-led redistricting reaches 8th Circuit after USDJ Stephen Clark (Trump/MOED) effectively overrules MO Supreme Court. Ruling emerged just after GOP struck out w Kavanaugh at #SCOTUS. w/@aaronpellish www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Doc0005I didn't know that "rando judge can overrule the Supreme Court" was a thing.
Xolani Nkosana4The Missouri Supreme Court explicitly ruled that the new map is not legally valid until voters pass the November referendum Because Brett Kavanaugh already refused to intervene on this exact issue. the 8th Circuit must respect the state court's authority and strike down the federal judge's overreach
Suz1Missouri republicans are ignoring the Supreme Court ruling. Brett Kavanaugh will not be pleased.
Not so fast: a federal judge in Missouri has now issued a conflicting ruling saying that if the new map ISN'T used it would violate the U.S. Constitution.
Razzle Dazzle3Hmmm… in regular times one would think the SCOTUS justice’s ruling would be controlling. We are not in regular times. Will Purcell be a shield to protect voting rights or a dagger to harm them?
Ellis Hankins2We need a Dislike button on this thing.
Nomad1Let me guess, not using a gerrymandered map violates the GOP freedom of speech ?
A thread on how we got to here in Missouri, and what happens next. For that, we head back to May of 2022. On the 18th of that month, GOP Gov. Mike Parson finally signed a new congressional map for the state's eight districts into law after a prolonged battle between hardliners and GOP leaders.
Alex Ip 葉清霖11What a nightmare for direct democracy *AND* representative democracy in Missouri, solely created because Missouri Republicans want to punish Kansas City and halve the number of Black people that Show-Me State voters can send to Congress
David Nir8Yes, there are 26 tweets in this thread. I promise every last one was necessary.
Charles Gaba ✡️6Threads like this are why I’m a paying subscriber to @the-downballot.com.
Peter Lucier2This is the only accurate version of this story. There’s context that just has to be understood about how insane all of this is and it has hereforto gone very unnoticed but this is far more insane than you can understand and appreciate from most coverage
