The votes won’t be cast for another four years, yet Democrats already appear likely to gain seats in Missouri’s Republican-dominated Legislature in 2022. The reason: a one-of-its kind redistricting initiative approved by voters in the recent midterm elections. Missouri’s initiative ...

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The votes won’t be cast for another four years, yet Democrats already appear likely to gain seats in Missouri’s Republican-dominated Legislature in 2022. The reason: a one-of-its kind redistricting initiative approved by voters in the recent midterm elections. Missouri’s initiative ...

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Missouri voters on Tuesday will consider a ballot measure that supporters say would make state government more ethical. Constitutional Amendment 1, the so-called “Clean Missouri” proposal, aims to replace Missouri’s system for drawing state legislative districts with a model designed ...

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Missouri voters on Tuesday will consider a ballot measure that supporters say would make state government more ethical. Constitutional Amendment 1, the so-called “Clean Missouri” proposal, aims to replace Missouri’s system for drawing state legislative districts with a model designed ...

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The task of drawing new boundaries for thousands of federal and state legislative districts is still about three years away, yet the political battle over redistricting already is playing out in this year’s midterm elections. North Carolina’s congressional elections were ...

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The task of drawing new boundaries for thousands of federal and state legislative districts is still about three years away, yet the political battle over redistricting already is playing out in this year’s midterm elections. North Carolina’s congressional elections were ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether states can use independent commissions to draw federal congressional district boundaries in a test of efforts to make elections more competitive.

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Pearson, et al. v. Koster; McClatchey, et al. v. Carnahan (MLW No. 63184/Case No. SC92200/SC92003 – 14 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, per curiam)

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Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature passed what it touted as a compromise plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts Wednesday night, but some Democrats decried it as a partisan map and urged the governor to veto it.

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St. Louis city would lose one of its two members of Congress and much of northern Missouri would be covered by a single congressional district under a redistricting proposal released Wednesday by a state House committee.

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Missouri House members are preparing to start work on a new congressional map that will have only eight districts, down from the current nine.

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