The Republican National Committee says the Missouri Supreme Court's relief could "sow more confusion among the electorate"
Republican National CommitteeNational party committee, filing as intervenor-respondent with the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Missouri Republican State Committee
In a brief supporting Secretary of State Denny Hoskins's stay application, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Missouri Republican State Committee wrote that it is difficult to imagine a judicial action that could "sow more confusion among the electorate" than the relief the Supreme Court of Missouri granted. They asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant Hoskins's application.
“It is difficult to imagine a judicial action that could sow more confusion among the electorate or inflict more damage to the public’s confidence in the integrity of the congressional elections than the relief the Missouri Supreme Court granted.”
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Should Missouri be allowed to use its 2025 congressional map in the 2026 general election?
Missouri lawmakers passed a new congressional map, House Bill 1, in September 2025, and the State used it in the August 4, 2026 primary. On September 3, 2026, the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled unanimously that a referendum petition kept the map from taking effect and that the 2022 map remains in force for the November general election. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and President Donald Trump said in early September that the primary map should be used in November, and the Eighth Circuit held on September 21 that using the 2022 map violates the U.S. Constitution. People Not Politicians, the Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU argued that Missouri law makes the 2022 map the only valid map and that ballots had been mailed under it. On September 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned per curiam order that records no dissent, stayed the federal injunctions, said that under state law the 2022 map must be used, and said lower courts should not require use of the 2025 map in the 2026 election. Kehoe called that decision disappointing and said Missouri will follow the order.
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Brief filed by three Republican party committees as intervenors, supporting Secretary of State Denny Hoskins's application to stay the Supreme Court of Missouri's September 3 ruling. The docket lists the filing as the response of the Republican National Committee, et al.
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The Court's docket records Secretary of State Denny Hoskins's September 4 application to stay the Supreme Court of Missouri's September 3 ruling, the responses and amicus briefs filed September 4 to 7, and Justice Kavanaugh's September 8 denial.
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Unanimous opinion reversing the Cole County Circuit Court. It holds that the referendum petition on House Bill 1 was legal, sufficient and timely, orders the Secretary of State to certify it for the November 2026 ballot, and enjoins him from using the 2025 map in the November 2026 general election unless voters approve it.
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The Supreme Court of Missouri had ruled on September 3 that the 2022 map remains in force for the November general election, and Hoskins applied to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 4 for a stay.
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Hoskins's application on September 8.
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The reference point is use of the 2025 map in the 2026 general election. The committees oppose the state court's order, which barred that map, and ask the Court to stay it, which defends using the map. The closest competing label, condemns, does not fit because their criticism is aimed at the state court, not at the use of the map.
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