A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered Missouri to use its new GOP-favored congressional map just hours after the Supreme Court denied the state’s emergency application.
US District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking Missouri from using its 2022 congressional map.
Chief Judge Clark issued the TRO with just seven minutes before the 5 pm ballot deadline.
The TRO is for 14 days.
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Missouri to use the NEW map for November, 7 minutes before the 5pm ballot deadline, hours after Kavanaugh declined to do the same. Hoskins is now under 2 opposite injunctions. It’s a 14-day TRO on federal grounds. Appeal expected within hours pic.twitter.com/eDWt07yQqk
— Mark Maxwell (@MarkMaxwellTV) September 8, 2026
The Supreme Court earlier Tuesday denied Missouri’s emergency appeal to use the GOP-favored Congressional map in this year’s midterm elections.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Missouri’s emergency application without comment.
The showdown began after the Missouri Supreme Court last Thursday threw out the state’s new congressional map that favored the GOP and eliminated one Democrat seat.
Last year, the Missouri House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a sweeping new congressional map that would reduce Democrat representation to just one seat.
In a 90-65 vote, GOP legislators approved a redistricting plan that dismantled the Democrat stronghold of the 5th District in Kansas City, and partitioned it across rural Republican-dominated districts, according to AP News.
Missouri’s Attorney General Catherine Hanaway responded to Judge Clark’s order.
“Missouri is prepared to follow and comply with Chief Judge Clark’s order that binds the state to using the Missouri FIRST map for the November General Election,” Hanaway said.
“We maintain that changing the congressional map in between the primary and general elections is simply not feasible and profoundly unjust to Missouri voters,” she added.
Missouri is prepared to follow and comply with Chief Judge Clark’s order that binds the state to using the Missouri FIRST map for the November General Election. We maintain that changing the congressional map in between the primary and general elections is simply not feasible and… https://t.co/Ha3V07jaJ9
— Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway (@AGCHanaway) September 8, 2026
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