A federal appeals panel on Sept. 17 grappled with a complicated appeal involving which congressional map Missouri will use in the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Right now, the state is on track to use the map approved by the state Legislature in 2022, as opposed to the map it passed in 2025 that was used in the primary elections on Aug. 4.
The three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard from attorneys via videoconference. Media participated by listening to an audio feed.
The judges and attorneys struggled to interpret a Sept. 10 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stayed a federal district court’s temporary restraining order and had the effect of keeping the 2022 map in place, but provided no helpful guidance to lower courts because its order lacked reasoning….