Image: Activists display signs opposing a GOP gerrymandering effort during a press conference inside the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol on September 10, 2025 in Jefferson City. (Photo by Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

Julia Corbett of Common Dreams reports: “Democracy defenders in Missouri and across the United States celebrated on Thursday after the US Supreme Court delivered its second blow to President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering quest in as many days, tossing out the state GOP’s desired congressional map.

The order had no noted dissents, despite the court’s right-wing supermajority, which includes three Trump appointees. Among them is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who had rejected the GOP’s emergency effort to uphold the map on Tuesday evening, as US District Judge Stephen Clark, another appointee of the president, said that Missouri can’t revert to its old map for the November midterms.

The high court’s new order appears to allow the state to use the old map for the upcoming elections, in which Trump’s Republican Party is trying to hold on to its narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress amid widespread voter dissatisfaction with an affordability crisis fueled by the president’s tariff regime and illegal war on Iran…”

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