A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a Democrat effort to reinstate Missouri’s 6R-2D Congressional map.
Last year, the Missouri House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a sweeping new congressional map that would reduce Democrat representation to just one seat.
In a 90-65 vote, GOP legislators approved a redistricting plan that dismantled the Democrat stronghold of the 5th District in Kansas City, and partitioned it across rural Republican-dominated districts, according to AP News.
On Wednesday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a stay of the lower court’s order reinstating the GOP-favored map.
The three-judge panel included: Loken (George H. W. Bush), Stras (Trump) and Justin D. Smith (Trump).
Wednesday’s order comes amid a dramatic legal battle that unfolded this week.
A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered Missouri to use its new GOP-favored congressional map just hours after the Supreme Court denied the state’s emergency application.
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