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Missouri's top court threw out the GOP's Trump-backed congressional map and ordered a November referendum, while Republicans rushed to the U.S. Supreme Court to block that ruling. The people's check on gerrymandering, or judges overturning a legitimate map days before an election?

The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously ruled the 2025 mid-decade redistricting map illegal and reinstated the old district lines for 2026, sending the new map to voters as Proposition A while the stat