The Supreme Court shut down Missouri's latest effort to impose a gerrymandered congressional map for this election, marking the third time such an attempt has been rejected. The Court found that the map amounted to a direct violation of applicable law, leaving the state without a legally valid plan for the coming vote.
Alongside the ruling, the Court took aim at the Eighth Circuit, suggesting that the panel's legal theory did not survive scrutiny. The pointed rebuke underscored how far the lower court's reasoning had strayed from the governing standards, and it capped what the report described as a terrible week for Missouri's map proponents.