Appeals court orders Missouri to use Trump-backed congressional map, setting up another Supreme Court battle上诉法院命令密苏里州使用特朗普支持的国会选区划分方案，这又将引发一场最高法院之争。
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Missouri must use a GOP-friendly congressional redistricting plan for November’s election but put that ruling on hold for a week so the Supreme Court could review the dispute.
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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Missouri must use a GOP-friendly congressional redistricting plan for November’s election but put that ruling on hold for a week so the Supreme Court could review the dispute.
The ruling from the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest twist in a whiplash legal wrangling over the map, injecting another round of uncertainty, as it does not take effect immediately but rather sets up another round of appeals.
The Missouri Supreme Court previously said the 6-1 Republican-leaning map adopted by the legislature last year could not be used because of a referendum challenge brought against it under the state constitution.
The Missouri Supreme Court ordered election officials to use an older, 5-2 redistricting plan even though the 2025 plan had been used in the state’s primary. The US Supreme Court declined to reverse that ruling, and it then paused a federal judge’s ruling that sought to revive the 6-1 map.
The new ruling from the 8th Circuit said requiring voters to cast general election ballots on the older plan violates the US Constitution.
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Federal judge orders Missouri to proceed with GOP-friendly map after Supreme Court balked
It relied on estimates put forward by a conservative group in the case to conclude “that more than 1.4 million Missourians could not vote for the congressional district nominees who will appear on their November 2026 general election ballot, and more than a quarter-million Missourians who voted in the August 2026 primary election cast a vote for a congressional district candidate who now cannot represent them.”
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Missouri’s new map targeted the 5th Congressional District, held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, by breaking up its Kansas City base and stretching it into rural and Republican-leaning parts of the state.
The group that launched the referendum campaign against the GOP-leaning map noted in a statement reacting to the new ruling that “Ballots have been printed, and Missourians have already voted.”
“Thousands more will vote before this order seeks to take effect,” the statement from People Not Politicians said. “Officials should stop wasting taxpayers’ money on pointless legal action and instead focus on administering our elections.”
CNN’s Fredreka Schouten and John Fritze contributed to this report.
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周一，联邦上诉法院裁定，密苏里州必须在 11 月的选举中使用对共和党有利的国会选区重划方案，但将该裁决暂缓执行一周，以便最高法院审查该争议。
美国第八巡回上诉法院的裁决是围绕地图展开的一系列令人眼花缭乱的法律争论中的最新转折，注入了新一轮的不确定性，因为它不会立即生效，而是会引发新一轮的上诉。
密苏里州最高法院此前表示，由于有人根据州宪法对其提起全民公投挑战，去年立法机构通过的 6 比 1 共和党倾向的选区划分方案不能使用。
密苏里州最高法院命令选举官员使用较早的5比2选区划分方案，尽管该州初选使用的是2025年方案。美国最高法院拒绝推翻该裁决，随后暂停了一名联邦法官试图恢复6比1选区划分方案的裁决。
第八巡回法院的新裁决称，要求选民在普选中按照旧方案投票违反了美国宪法。
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最高法院反对后，联邦法官命令密苏里州继续推进对共和党有利的选区划分方案。
该判决依据保守派团体在该案中提出的估计得出结论：“超过 140 万密苏里州选民无法投票选出将在 2026 年 11 月大选选票上出现的国会选区候选人，超过 25 万在 2026 年 8 月初选中投票的密苏里州选民投票给了现在无法代表他们的国会选区候选人。”
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密苏里州的新选区地图以民主党众议员伊曼纽尔·克利弗所在的第五国会选区为目标，将其堪萨斯城票仓分割，并扩展到该州的农村和共和党倾向地区。
发起反对共和党倾向选区划分方案的公投运动的团体在一份回应新裁决的声明中指出，“选票已经印好，密苏里州选民已经投票了。”
“在这项命令生效之前，还会有数千人投票，” “人民而非政客”组织在一份声明中表示。“官员们应该停止将纳税人的钱浪费在毫无意义的法律诉讼上，而应该专注于管理我们的选举。”
CNN的Fredreka Schouten和John Fritze对本报道亦有贡献。