Missouri asks Supreme Court for emergency stay to preserve current map amid redistricting clash

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway asked Justice Brett Kavanaugh for an emergency stay of the Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling blocking the use of newly drawn, heavily gerrymandered congressional districts in the November election; the state high court had ordered a referendum on the GOP map and said November’s vote must proceed under the 2022 map, which would still favor Republicans in six of eight districts after primary voters had already cast ballots under the new lines. Hanaway warned the move could cause an “election-administration disaster” and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters, while Kavanaugh asked for responses by noon Monday as federal-state redistricting tensions continue.