2026年9月24日 美国东部时间下午1:02 / 福克斯新闻
第八巡回法院将其裁定暂停至9月28日，为最高法院介入留出了狭窄窗口
作者：伊莱恩·马伦 福克斯新闻
发布于 2026年9月24日 下午1:02 美国东部时间 | 更新于 2026年9月24日 下午1:24 美国东部时间
密苏里州国会选区地图之争即将再度上演最高法院对决
联邦上诉法院命令密苏里州启用新国会选区地图后，前司法部官员阿比谢克·坎布利发表看法，此案可能再度被提交至最高法院。
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密苏里州国会选区地图之争正迅速走向另一场可能的最高法院对决，两级法院在120多万密苏里州选民依据另一套选区地图参加8月初选后，就11月大选应使用哪套选区地图产生分歧。
美国第八巡回上诉法院周一裁定，密苏里州必须在11月大选中使用2025年版国会选区地图，并称初选后改用该州2022年版选区将违反美国宪法。但该上诉法院将其裁定暂停至2026年9月28日，为再次向美国最高法院提起诉讼留出了狭窄窗口。
霍尔茨曼·沃格尔律师事务所合伙人、前司法部副部长助理阿比谢克·坎布利告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，最高法院此前的介入并不一定能预示大法官们将如何处理最新裁决。
“他们的裁决难以预测，主要是因为我们没有拿到上次命令中的推理过程，”坎布利说，“所以我们不清楚他们当时决定暂停审理的确切原因。”
最高法院裁决后，这个红色州的选举混乱对共和党而言愈发诡异
密苏里州最高法院叫停新的选区划分地图，并下令11月就是否保留该地图举行全州公投。（美联社照片/大卫·A·利布）
最高法院此前曾暂缓执行联邦地区法院要求密苏里州使用2025年版地图的临时禁制令。如今第八巡回法院已指示下级法院下达永久性禁令，要求启用新版选区地图，这让争议进入了不同的程序阶段。
“除非最高法院再次介入，否则该州将必须在本次大选中使用‘7比1’的选区地图，”坎布利说。
密苏里州于2026年8月4日依据2025年版地图举行了初选。大约一个月后，密苏里州最高法院裁定选民可通过公投质疑该地图，使得2022年版选区在11月大选中继续有效。
坎布利表示，在初选和大选之间更换国会选区地图会引发严重的宪法争议。
“会有大量密苏里州选民被剥夺选举权，因为他们在初选时为一组候选人投了票，而在大选时却要为另一组候选人投票，”坎布利说。
密苏里州总检察长提交请愿书，请求最高法院恢复特朗普支持的选区划分地图
这些地图展示了密苏里州2022年至2025年间国会选区的变化，包括堪萨斯城所在的第5选区扩张至该州更多倾向共和党的农村地区。（密苏里州行政办公室/阿曼达·马西亚斯/福克斯新闻数字频道）
“更令人担忧的是，有时这些候选人是无对手参选的，以至于选民会因为密苏里州最高法院的这一裁决而错失唯一的投票机会，”坎布利继续说道，“所以真正的问题在于——在初选是该州选举制度不可或缺的一部分的情况下，是否每个人都能享有平等的发言权。”
但耶鲁大学法学院教授阿克希尔·阿玛尔和加州大学戴维斯分校法学院教授维克拉姆·阿玛尔则持相反观点。在最高法院此前暂缓审理后，维克拉姆在SCOTUS博客上撰文称，如果2025年版选区地图从未合法生效，那么在11月大选使用该地图并不能保护任何人的投票权。阿克希尔同意他的分析。
“HB1法案的选区地图完全没有法律效力，”维克拉姆写道，“不能仅仅因为这些地图在初选时被错误地使用过，就将它们错误地用于11月的大选。两个错误不能造就（或维护）一项（投票）权利。”
与此同时，坎布利将这场临到最后时刻仍在纠结使用哪套地图的法律混战，大部分归咎于密苏里州最高法院，称这场动荡“完全可以避免”。
弗吉尼亚州两党在州最高法院前就选区划分问题展开激烈较量
坎布利认为，密苏里州最高法院本可以更早解决选区地图争端，他指出即便在候选人报名截止日期过后，该问题仍未得到解决。
布伦南司法中心司法项目高级主任艾丽西亚·班农则将争端拖延的关键原因归咎于密苏里州州务卿丹尼·霍斯金斯的拖延。
2025年12月，反对2025年版地图的人士提交了超过30万个签名，但霍斯金斯直到8月4日初选当天才正式否决该公投请愿书。
“时间一拖再拖，”班农在《州法院报告》中写道，“早在2025年12月，霍斯金斯就在另一项联邦诉讼中声称，根据州宪法，就选区划分举行公投是不被允许的。但他并未就此出具证书——这原本会触发司法审查——而是经历了漫长的请愿签名核实流程。”
班农写道，密苏里州最高法院对霍斯金斯拖延行为的批评十分突出，尤其是该法院驳回了他所谓的介入时机过晚的论点。
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共和党籍密苏里州州务卿丹尼·霍斯金斯正面临指控。（尼克·瓦格纳/《堪萨斯城星报》/论坛新闻服务通过盖蒂图片社）
密苏里州最高法院最终裁定公投可以进行，并指责霍斯金斯的拖延行为，称其“制造了他所抱怨的混乱、开支和实际困难”。
坎布利认为，普塞尔原则——联邦法院通常避免在选举日临近时更改选举规则，因为这可能造成混乱——支持保留2025年版地图，因为密苏里州已经在初选中使用了该地图。
“第八巡回法院表示，普塞尔原则支持这项禁令，而非与之相悖，”坎布利说。
班农也警告称，法院过于谨慎也会带来自身的问题。
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“这种做法在某些情况下是可以理解的，但也可能助长规避司法审查的小动作，同时损害选民的权利，”班农写道。
班农建议，密苏里州本可以更早采取法院行动来避免这场最后时刻的争端，包括推迟初选或为公投请愿设定明确的截止日期。
但无论最高法院是否介入审理，公投仍将出现在选票上。
“如果最高法院不暂缓第八巡回法院的禁令，那么毫无疑问，本次大选将使用‘7比1’的选区地图。仍将有一场公投决定未来选举的选区问题，但就本次大选而言，将按此方案执行，”坎布利说。
伊莱恩·马伦是福克斯新闻数字频道和福克斯商业频道的记者，报道全国政治新闻。
Missouri’s redistricting mess created an election problem Supreme Court has days to untangle
2026-09-24 1:02pm EDT / Fox News
The Eighth Circuit paused its order until Sept. 28, opening a narrow window for Supreme Court intervention
By Elaine Mallon Fox News
Published September 24, 2026 1:02pm EDT | Updated September 24, 2026 1:24pm EDT
Legal ping-pong over Missouri election maps races toward another Supreme Court showdown
Former DOJ official Abhishek Kambli weighs in after a federal appeals court ordered Missouri to use its new congressional map, setting up a potential return trip to the Supreme Court.
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Missouri’s congressional map fight is hurtling toward another potential Supreme Court showdown, with courts at odds over which districts should govern the November election after more than 1.2 million Missourians voted in the August primary under a different map.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri must use its 2025 congressional map in November, finding that switching to the state’s 2022 districts after the primary would violate the U.S. Constitution. But the appeals court paused its order until Sept. 28, 2026, opening a narrow window for another visit to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Abhishek Kambli, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former deputy associate attorney general at the Justice Department, told Fox News Digital the Supreme Court’s previous intervention does not necessarily signal how the justices will handle the latest ruling.
“It’s unpredictable how they’ll rule, mostly because we didn’t get their reasoning in the last order,” Kambli said. “So, we don’t know the precise reason why they decided to stay at that time.”
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Missouri’s high court blocked the new redistricting map and ordered a statewide vote in November on whether to keep it.(AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
The Supreme Court previously stayed a federal district court’s temporary restraining order requiring Missouri to use the 2025 map. The Eighth Circuit has now directed the lower court to enter a permanent injunction requiring the newer districts, putting the dispute in a different procedural posture.
“So unless the Supreme Court steps in again, the state will be required to use the seven-one map for this election,” Kambli said.
Missouri held its Aug. 4, 2026, primary under the 2025 map. Roughly a month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that voters could challenge the map through a referendum, leaving the 2022 districts in place for the November election.
Kambli said switching congressional maps between the primary and general election raises serious constitutional concerns.
“You would have had a large number of Missourians who would have been disenfranchised because they voted for one set of candidates in the primary and will be voting for another set in the general,” Kambli said.
MISSOURI AG FILES PETITION ASKING SUPREME COURT TO REVIVE TRUMP-BACKED REDISTRICTING MAP
The maps show how Missouri’s congressional districts changed between 2022 and 2025, including the expansion of the Kansas City-area 5th District into more Republican-leaning rural parts of the state.(Missouri Office of Administration/Amanda Macias/Fox News Digital)
“And what’s even more concerning is sometimes those candidates are unopposed so that they miss their only chance to vote as a result of what the Missouri Supreme Court did here,” Kambli continued. “So that’s what’s really at issue — is whether everyone gets an equal voice in a situation where the primary election is integral to the electoral system of the state.”
But Yale law professor Akhil Amar and University of California, Davis, law professor Vikram Amar have argued the opposite. After the Supreme Court’s earlier stay, Vikram wrote on SCOTUSblog that using the 2025 map in November would not protect anyone’s right to vote if those lines were never legally in effect. Akhil agreed with his analysis.
“HB1’s district lines lack the force of law, full stop,” Vikram wrote. “These lines cannot be used wrongly in November just because they were previously used wrongly in the primary. Two wrongs do not make (or vindicate) a right (to vote).”
Meanwhile, Kambli placed much of the blame for the eleventh-hour legal scramble over which map to use on the Missouri Supreme Court, arguing the turmoil was “entirely preventable.”
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Kambli argued that the Missouri Supreme Court could have resolved the map dispute earlier, noting that the issue remained unsettled even after the candidate filing deadline passed.
Alicia Bannon, senior director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, pointed instead to delays by Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins as a key reason the dispute dragged on.
Opponents of the 2025 map submitted more than 300,000 signatures in December 2025, but Hoskins did not formally reject the referendum petition until Aug. 4, the day of the primary.
“Time passed. And passed further,” Bannon wrote for State Court Report. “As early as December 2025, Hoskins asserted in separate federal litigation that a referendum on redistricting was not authorized by the state constitution. But he held off on issuing a certificate on that basis — which would have triggered judicial review — instead going through a lengthy process of verifying petition signatures.”
Bannon wrote that the Missouri Supreme Court’s criticism of Hoskins’ delays stood out, particularly the court’s rejection of his argument that it had waited too long to intervene.
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Republican Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is facing(Nick Wagner/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The Missouri Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the referendum could proceed and faulted Hoskins for the delay, saying he had “created the confusion, expense, and practical difficulties of which he complains.”
Kambli argued the Purcell principle, under which federal courts generally avoid changing election rules close to Election Day because of the potential for disruption, weighs in favor of keeping the 2025 map because Missouri already used it for the primary.
“The Eighth Circuit said that the Purcell principles support the injunction, not go against it,” Kambli said.
Bannon also warned that courts being too cautious can create its own problems.
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“It’s an approach that’s understandable in some circumstances but can also incentivize shenanigans to evade judicial review while harming voters’ rights,” Bannon wrote.
Bannon suggested earlier court action in Missouri could have helped avoid the last-minute dispute, including by moving the primary or setting a firm deadline for the referendum petition.
But regardless of whether the Supreme Court decides to weigh in, the referendum will still be on the ballot.
“If the Supreme Court does not stay the Eighth Circuit injunction, there’s no doubt that the 7-1 map is what will be in effect for this election. There’s still going to be a referendum on the ballot deciding that issue for future elections, but for this one, that’s how it’ll be decided,” Kambli said.
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
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