# Missouri AG files petition asking Supreme Court to revive Trump-backed redistricting map

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/missouri-ag-files-petition-asking-supreme-court-to-revive-trump-backed-redistricting-map/
- Published: 2026-09-05T12:13:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-05T18:18:07+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missouri-ag-files-petition-asking-supreme-court-revive-trump-backed-redistricting-map
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Missouri AG appealed to US Supreme Court over blocked GOP redistricting map.
- State's top court reinstated the pre-2020-census map for November's election.
- Case forms part of Trump-backed nationwide mid-decade redistricting fight.

## Summary

Missouri's Republican Attorney General, Catherine Hanaway, filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court seeking to reinstate a Trump-backed congressional redistricting map, after the state's Supreme Court blocked it and ordered a public referendum on the matter in November. The dispute became a key flashpoint in a wider nationwide battle over mid-decade redistricting pushed by President Trump, who wanted the new map to help Republicans gain a House seat and protect their slim majority, with the case turning on tight state deadlines for finalising the November ballot.

The Missouri Supreme Court had ruled that a referendum petition, filed in December after opponents gathered more than 300,000 signatures, meant the new districts could not take effect without voter approval, overturning the Republican secretary of state's rejection of that petition. As a result, the pre-existing map drawn after the 2020 census was reinstated for the November 2026 election, even though the new GOP-drawn map had already been used in the recent primaries. Hanaway argued the ruling was unprecedented and risked "unprecedented chaos," while Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave map opponents until Monday to respond to the emergency appeal; President Trump and Missouri's governor both criticised the state court's decision as improper judicial overreach.

## Coverage

- [Fox News: Missouri AG files petition asking Supreme Court to revive Trump-backed redistricting map](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missouri-ag-files-petition-asking-supreme-court-revive-trump-backed-redistricting-map)
- [The Hill: Missouri asks Supreme Court to restore GOP-friendly congressional map ](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6072940-missouri-redistricting-gop-map-supreme-court/)

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