House Speaker Jon Patterson says "It's time for us to print the ballots and go vote"
Jon PattersonSpeaker of the Missouri House of Representatives
Missouri House Speaker Jon Patterson, who will see different candidates on his November ballot, said that not everyone agrees with everything but that the courts have ruled and "It's time for us to print the ballots and go vote."
“I don’t think anybody out there agrees with everything … But the courts have ruled. I respect the courts. I respect the rule of law. It’s time for us to print the ballots and go vote.”
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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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KMBC reports reactions to the Supreme Court's September 10 stay from Gov. Mike Kehoe and Missouri House Speaker Jon Patterson, with direct quotations from both.
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The U.S. Supreme Court had stayed the federal order requiring the 2025 map on September 10, the day of this report.
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In the same report, Gov. Mike Kehoe said he would like the map used in the August primary to be the map Missourians vote on in November.
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The reference point is use of the 2025 map in the 2026 general election. Patterson accepts the court rulings that leave the 2022 map in place while acknowledging disagreement, and he argues neither for nor against the 2025 map. The label combines acceptance with an acknowledged reservation, and condemns loses because he criticizes neither the map nor its use.
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