Whether Missourians vote in a referendum on congressional redistricting could turn on the question of what happens to the Aug. 4 primary results, arguments Wednesday in a Cole County courtroom showed. Candidates were nominated in Missouri’s eight districts but six of those districts were redrawn as part of the gerrymandered map passed in 2025 to […]

The fate of two proposed ballot measures —- a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map and a constitutional amendment limiting legislative power to alter laws passed by initiative — will go on trial next week, a Cole County judge decided Wednesday. Circuit Judge Daniel Green ordered back-to-back hearings for the two measures Secretary of State […]

The campaign seeking a public vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map is asking a Cole County judge to do more than put the referendum on the November ballot — it wants the court to prohibit the state from using the map at all this fall. What that would mean for the candidates nominated Tuesday in […]