The Supreme Court has again stepped into Missouri's congressional districting litigation. A SCOTUSblog post reports that the justices “benchslapped” one district judge and three appellate judges on the Eighth Circuit, calling it the latest major round in the case and suggesting it may be the final one.
A second SCOTUSblog post covers the same districting matter but places it alongside other news, including an update on mail-in voting and Justice Kavanaugh's planned remarks on September 11. The posts agree that the Court acted, but they differ in focus: one is devoted entirely to the districting fight, while the other treats it as part of a broader legal roundup.
The excerpts do not specify the exact legal reasoning or the resulting map. Still, the language in the update makes clear that the Court's intervention was significant and unfavorable to the lower courts it reviewed.