Another day, another courtroom: Missouri's congressional map fight heads to 8th Circuit
Onder is challenging Missouri’s use of different congressional maps for the primary and general election.
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Missouri’s congressional map dispute goes before the 8th Circuit, with Robert Onder and Rick Brattin arguing that using different maps for the primary and general election creates constitutional problems. The court’s decision may affect November’s districts, but the Supreme Court’s stay could keep the 2022 map in place.
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Robert F. Onder, Jr.
R · MO-3
U.S. representative and plaintiff challenging the use of different congressional maps for the primary and general election
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Rick Brattin
R · MO-5
State senator and congressional candidate who joined the federal challenge to Missouri’s congressional maps
Brattin's version of this story ↗ALSO MENTIONED Denny Hoskins, Missouri secretary of state and defendant in the congressional-map lawsuit; Richard Von Glahn, Executive director of People Not Politicians, an intervenor and appellant supporting the 2022 map
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