The Campaign Legal Center and ACLU affiliates tell the Supreme Court that "voting has begun" under the 2022 map
Legal advocacy organization filing an amicus brief with the ACLU of Missouri Foundation and the ACLU Foundation
“Pursuant to this Court’s orders and the Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling on state law, election administration has proceeded under the 2022 map, ballots have already been mailed, and voting has begun. … This Court must once again step in to restore order by granting the Applicants’ requested relief.”
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Amicus brief supporting the applicants, People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, in their September 22 application to stay the Eighth Circuit's ruling.
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Report on the Supreme Court's September 25 order, with the sequence of court actions since September 3, the filings of Missouri and the plaintiffs, and county election officials' account of absentee voting under the 2022 map.
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Unsigned per curiam order on an application that Circuit Justice Brett Kavanaugh referred to the full Court. It stays the Eighth Circuit's September 21 mandate and September 22 order and the district court's September 21 and 22 injunctions, keeps the Court's September 10 stay in place, and says the lower courts should not prohibit use of the 2022 map or require use of the 2025 map in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri. The text of the order shows no separate opinion or noted dissent.
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The Eighth Circuit had ordered a permanent injunction requiring the 2025 map on September 21, and absentee voting in Missouri began on September 22.
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The Supreme Court granted the applicants' stay on September 25.
How this statement is classified
Responding to: Ordering Missouri to return to the 2025 map after ballots have been printed and mailed and voting has begun would create the electoral disorder that the Purcell principle exists to prevent.
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Why this label?
The reference point is use of the 2025 map in the 2026 general election. The brief argues that the election is under way under the 2022 map and asks the Court to stop the Eighth Circuit's order requiring the 2025 map, which opposes that use. The closest competing label, “Challenged the characterization”, loses because the brief seeks a specific outcome.
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Should Missouri be allowed to use its 2025 congressional map in the 2026 general election?
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Read the full case“It is disappointing that today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court means Missouri will conduct its November general election under a different congressional map than its primary election. Voters deserved consistency and certainty, and not for the rules to be changed between elections. Nevertheless, Missouri will follow the Court’s order.”Read statement
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“In short, as a matter of state law, the 2022 map—not the 2025 map—must be used in the 2026 congressional election. … At this late date, ordering reversion to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos. Purcell protects against such disorder. … And the District Court and Court of Appeals should not order or otherwise require Missouri to use the 2025 map in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri.”Read statement
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