This Was Error – RedState

Welp, the Supreme Court has stepped in — again — in the continued battle over which congressional map Missouri will use in November, and this time, the message to the decrease federal courts was unmistakable.

In a per curiam order issued late Friday afternoon, the Court granted an emergency keep sought by People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, blocking the eighth Circuit’s September 21 ruling and the everlasting injunction subsequently entered by Chief Judge Stephen Clark. The sensible impact: Missouri will continue utilizing its 2022 congressional map for the November election.     

The Court recounted its two earlier interventions in the dispute: Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s September 8 refusal to keep the Missouri Supreme Court ruling requiring use of the 2022 map, adopted two days later by the full Court’s keep of Clark’s short-term restraining order requiring use of the newer 2025 map. That September 10 keep, the Court emphasised Friday, “remains in effect.”

Then got here maybe the sharpest line in the five-page order. After noting that the eighth Circuit however ordered entry of a everlasting injunction requiring the 2025 map, the justices noticed: “Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise.”

Ouch.

The Court also solid doubt on the eighth Circuit’s novel Article I, Section 2 principle, at least for functions of emergency aid. Supreme Court precedent has never held that a state must use the same congressional map for its main and common elections, the Court famous, which means the deserves weren’t “entirely clearcut.”

And the Purcell precept performed a starring position. The Court burdened that Missouri’s election is not merely approaching — it has already begun. Ballots utilizing the 2022 map have been printed and mailed, while absentee and army/abroad voting are underway. Switching maps now, the Court concluded, “would usher in electoral chaos.”

One other notable level: Missouri had urged the Court to dismiss the appliance because PNP and von Glahn lacked appellate standing, adopting Judge David Stras’s place from his dissenting opinion below.

SCOTUS dispatched that argument in a footnote: “We conclude that at least one of the applicants has standing on appeal.” 

For November, at least, Missouri’s congressional-map query finally seems to have an reply: 2022.

And that, as they are saying, is that.

Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will decide the destiny of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must preserve control of both chambers of Congress.

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