The Missouri Supreme Court on May 27 unanimously rejected a constitutional challenge to Missouri’s congressional redistricting plan that the state Legislature approved last year.
Missouri’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives currently has six Republicans and two Democrats. The new map, which supporters call the “Missouri First Map,” is expected to result in Republicans gaining one seat.
The Show Me state’s high court affirmed a circuit court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Missouri argued that Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican, had full legal authority to call the extraordinary session of the Missouri General Assembly at which the redistricting plan was approved….