# Missouri General Assembly

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-19**: Absentee ballot mailing deadline — Federal statutory deadline to mail absentee ballots to overseas citizens and military voters.
- **2026-09-09**: Federal appeals court sides with Republicans — A federal appeals court panel declines to halt a federal judge's order favoring the Trump-backed map; the decision is immediately appealed to the Supreme Court.
- **2026-09-08**: Supreme Court lets state ruling stand — The U.S. Supreme Court lets stand a Missouri Supreme Court ruling against the Trump-backed districts.
- **2026-09**: U.S. Supreme Court denies stay; 2022 map remains for general election — Justice Brett Kavanaugh's order denies Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' request to keep the new map in place, so primary winners will run under the 2022 congressional map.
- **2026-08**: Hoskins rejects referendum petition — Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejects the petition on Missouri's primary day, asserting referenda cannot be used for congressional redistricting.
- **2026**: Missouri Supreme Court orders statewide referendum on new map — The state high court holds that the legislature's new congressional map, which favored Republicans, is referred legislation that cannot take effect until Missouri voters approve it.
- **2025-12**: Referendum signatures submitted — Redistricting opponents submit hundreds of thousands of petition signatures seeking a statewide vote on the new districts.
- **2025-09**: Missouri legislature passes new congressional map — State lawmakers pass new U.S. House districts targeting Kansas City-based Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's seat, aiming for a 7-1 Republican split.

## Recent coverage (2 stories)

### Missouri Map Chaos: SCOTUS Faces Dueling Rulings 9 Days Before Ballot Deadline
2026-09-10 03:10:30 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 3

Conflicting state and federal rulings over Missouri's congressional map have thrown the state's eight House races into legal limbo, forcing the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in just nine days before the September 19 overseas-ballot mailing deadline. The case tests unresolved boundaries from Moore v. Harper between state and federal judicial authority, and whether the Purcell principle can discipline late-stage redistricting litigation.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/missouri-map-scotus-dueling-rulings-ballot-deadline

### SCOTUS Rejects Missouri Map, Restores 2022 Districts for Midterms
2026-09-09 06:25:27 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

The Supreme Court's denial of Missouri's emergency stay leaves the 2022 congressional map in place pending a statewide referendum, upending primary results and sharpening the tension between referendum rights and the Purcell principle. Justice Kavanaugh's order diverges from the Court's California and Texas redistricting rulings, giving election-law practitioners a new fact pattern on late-breaking ballot changes.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/scotus-rejects-missouri-redistricting-2022-map

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