Rep. Emanuel Cleaver says the Supreme Court's stay is "A win for justice. A win for democracy."
Emanuel CleaverU.S. Representative for Missouri's 5th District, posting on his official @repcleaver account
Cleaver responded to the Supreme Court's September 10 stay by calling it a win for justice, democracy and the people of Missouri. He said he hoped state officials would follow court orders and end what he called a "shameful attempt to break Missouri law and silence Missouri voters."
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Under the Missouri Constitution, the referendum petition kept House Bill 1 from taking effect, so the 2022 map is the only valid congressional map and must be used in the 2026 general election.
“A win for justice. A win for democracy. A win for the people of Missouri. It is my hope that state officials will start following court orders and end this shameful attempt to break Missouri law and silence Missouri voters.”
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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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Post from Cleaver's official congressional account, a government-verified account, responding to the Supreme Court's September 10 order.
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One-page unsigned order staying the district court's September 8 order pending the Eighth Circuit appeal and any timely petition for certiorari. The order gives no reasoning.
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Report on the Supreme Court's September 10 stay. It quotes Richard von Glahn's emailed statement, notes that the U.S. solicitor general joined Missouri and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in opposing the stay, and describes the order as unsigned with no publicly noted dissent.
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Report on the Supreme Court of Missouri's September 10 contempt hearing for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, his statement directing local election authorities to use the 2022 map, and statements from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, attorney Chuck Hatfield and Rep. Bob Onder.
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The Supreme Court's September 10 order stayed the federal order requiring the 2025 map. The Missouri Independent reported that the 2025 map was designed to make the 5th District, which Cleaver represents, more favorable to Republicans.
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Later on September 10, the Supreme Court of Missouri found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt, then ruled that he had purged the contempt by directing use of the 2022 map.
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The reference point is use of the 2025 map in the 2026 general election. Cleaver welcomes the stay that keeps the 2025 map out of the general election and criticizes the effort to use it as a breach of Missouri law, which condemns that use. The closest competing label, “Mixed or conditional”, loses because he attaches no condition.
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