2026年9月21日 晚上7:18 美东时间 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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发布于 2026年9月21日 晚上7:18 美东时间
最高法院 国会选举新闻
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美国联邦上诉法院周一裁定，密苏里州必须在11月的选举中采用一项有利于共和党的国会选区划分方案，但将该裁决暂缓一周，以便最高法院可以审查这一争议。
美国第八巡回上诉法院的这一裁决是该选区划分方案相关法律纠纷的最新转折，再度制造了不确定性：该裁决不会立即生效，反而会引发新一轮上诉。
密苏里州最高法院此前裁定，州议会去年通过的那份共和党以6:1优势占优的选区划分方案不能使用，因为有人依据州宪法对其发起了公投挑战。
尽管2025年版的划分方案已在该州初选中使用，密苏里州最高法院还是命令选举官员采用一份旧的、共和党以5:2优势占优的选区划分方案。美国最高法院拒绝推翻这一裁决，随后还暂停了一名联邦法官旨在恢复6:1比例方案的裁决。
第八巡回上诉法院的新裁决指出，要求选民在11月的大选投票中使用旧版选区方案违反了美国宪法。
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该裁决依据案件中一个保守派团体提出的估算结论，认为“超过140万密苏里州选民将无法为2026年11月大选 ballot上的国会选区候选人投票，另有超过25万在2026年8月初选中投票的密苏里选民，此前为国会选区候选人投出的选票如今将无法由他们支持的候选人代表。”
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密苏里州的新选区方案将民主党众议员伊曼纽尔·克利弗所代表的第五国会选区作为目标，拆分了该选区的堪萨斯城核心区域，将其延伸至该州农村和倾向共和党的地区。
发起针对共和党友好型选区方案公投运动的团体在一份回应新裁决的声明中指出，“选票已经印刷完毕，密苏里州选民已经开始投票。”
“在该命令试图生效前，还会有数千人完成投票，”“人民而非政客”组织的声明称。“官员们应该停止在毫无意义的法律诉讼上浪费纳税人的钱，转而专注于组织我们的选举。”
美国有线电视新闻网的弗雷德里卡·舒滕和约翰·弗里策对本文亦有贡献。
Appeals court orders Missouri to use Trump-backed congressional map, setting up another Supreme Court battle
2026-09-21 7:18 PM ET / CNN
By Tierney Sneed
50 min ago
PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2026, 7:18 PM ET
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Protesters against Missouri’s congressional redistricting plan gather outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City on May 12.
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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Missouri must use a GOP-friendly congressional redistricting plan for November’s election but put that ruling on hold for a week so the Supreme Court could review the dispute.
The ruling from the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest twist in a whiplash legal wrangling over the map, injecting another round of uncertainty, as it does not take effect immediately but rather sets up another round of appeals.
The Missouri Supreme Court previously said the 6-1 Republican-leaning map adopted by the legislature last year could not be used because of a referendum challenge brought against it under the state constitution.
The Missouri Supreme Court ordered election officials to use an older, 5-2 redistricting plan even though the 2025 plan had been used in the state’s primary. The US Supreme Court declined to reverse that ruling, and it then paused a federal judge’s ruling that sought to revive the 6-1 map.
The new ruling from the 8th Circuit said requiring voters to cast general election ballots on the older plan violates the US Constitution.
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It relied on estimates put forward by a conservative group in the case to conclude “that more than 1.4 million Missourians could not vote for the congressional district nominees who will appear on their November 2026 general election ballot, and more than a quarter-million Missourians who voted in the August 2026 primary election cast a vote for a congressional district candidate who now cannot represent them.”
Rep. Emanuel Cleaverspeaks during a rally on February 10, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Missouri’s new map targeted the 5th Congressional District, held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, by breaking up its Kansas City base and stretching it into rural and Republican-leaning parts of the state.
The group that launched the referendum campaign against the GOP-leaning map noted in a statement reacting to the new ruling that “Ballots have been printed, and Missourians have already voted.”
“Thousands more will vote before this order seeks to take effect,” the statement from People Not Politicians said. “Officials should stop wasting taxpayers’ money on pointless legal action and instead focus on administering our elections.”
CNN’s Fredreka Schouten and John Fritze contributed to this report.
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