Published September 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM ET · Updated September 27, 2026 at 10:07 PM ET
Supreme Court again rejects Missouri's GOP-drawn congressional map
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The Supreme Court again rejected Missouri's congressional map, which was backed by Republicans. The ruling marks another instance in which the Court has declined to allow the GOP-drawn district lines to stand.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Wesberry v. Sanders requires congressional districts within a state to be substantially equal in population, so any replacement Missouri map must meet that floor. Rucho v. Common Cause bars federal courts from striking a map for partisan advantage alone. So that cannot be the ground here; the ruling must rest on some other defect, and that defect is what new lines must fix.
Wesberry v. Sanders 376 U.S. 1 (1964)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Justice Hugo L. Black
Article I, § 2's command that Representatives be chosen 'by the People of the several States' requires that, as nearly as is practicable, one person's vote in a congressional election be worth as much as another's — i.e., congressional districts within a state must be substantially equal in population. Georgia's Fifth District, with two to three times the population of some other districts, was unconstitutional. This is the congressional-districting branch of 'one person, one vote.'
Rucho v. Common Cause 588 U.S. 684 (2019)
Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
Partisan gerrymandering claims present nonjusticiable political questions: there is no 'limited and precise' judicially manageable standard for deciding how much partisan advantage is too much. Federal courts may not adjudicate them. The Court pointedly left open that state constitutions and statutes may supply standards enforceable in STATE courts, and that Congress retains power to regulate.
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