Missouri GOP still see path for gerrymandered congressional map. Legal experts see little hope.

The Atlanta Missourian · Sep 14, 2026

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, right, speaks to reporters on Sept. 10 after the Missouri Supreme Court found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, center, “was in contempt” for ordering use of an illegal congressional map (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent).

Republican officials aren’t giving up on the congressional map they pushed through the Missouri legislature last year, despite two setbacks at the U.S. Supreme Court and a state Supreme Court ruling that the map never became law. Their next chance comes Thursday before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.…

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