2026-09-03T23:02:22.905Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/politics/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-trump-backed-map-midterms
美联社——
密苏里州最高法院一致否决了总统唐纳德·特朗普支持的新国会选区划分方案，禁止其在11月的选举中使用，并下令就该新地图是否获得民众支持举行全州范围投票。
周四的这项裁决在全国范围内的选区重划斗争中，给共和党带来了罕见的挫折。共和党原本希望密苏里州新的国会选区划分方案能帮助他们额外拿下一个席位，从而保住他们在中期选举中微弱的众议院多数优势。
密苏里州总检察长、共和党人凯瑟琳·哈纳韦表示，她将立即向美国最高法院提起上诉，称该裁决“将我们州拖入了一场彻头彻尾的宪法危机”。
密苏里州的新选区方案已在8月的初选中使用。但州最高法院表示，该方案不得在11月的大选中使用，且永远不得再次使用，除非选民首先认可由共和党主导的州议会通过的新选区方案。
法院裁定，去年12月反对者提交了超过30万份请愿签名，要求将该选区地图交由民众投票表决后，新选区方案实际上就已被搁置。共和党籍州务卿丹尼·霍斯金斯直到8月初选投票当天才否决了该请愿书，他声称全民公投程序不能用于国会选区重划。下级法院支持了他的说法，但最高法院推翻了霍斯金斯的决定。
“请愿公投是合法、充分且及时的，而州务卿得出了相反的错误结论，”法院在裁决中表示。包含新选区方案的立法“尚未生效，且在获得选民批准之前都不会生效”。因此，2020年人口普查后采用的国会选区地图“将在2026年11月的大选中完全继续有效”。
特朗普周四在社交媒体帖子中批评了这项裁决，称“距离选举时间非常近，没有足够的时间改回原来的地图。和往常一样，美国的选举进程正受到干扰！密苏里州应该能够使用几个月前初选时使用的那张地图。”
代理州务卿的哈纳韦称这项裁决是对联邦法律前所未有的违反。
“在美国历史上，从未有法院在初选结束后、大选前推翻过国会选区地图，”哈纳韦在一份声明中说道。
密苏里州宪法并未明确规定州议会通过的国会选区重划法案可提交全民公投。但最高法院裁定，允许就州议会“任何法案”举行全民公投的宪法条款，涵盖了国会选区重划事项。法院驳回了哈纳韦办公室提出的联邦法律禁止就国会选区重划提交全民公投请愿的主张。
这项裁决为这场持续一年、围绕新选区方案的政治博弈和法律缠斗画上了句号。
密苏里州目前在美国众议院拥有6名共和党议员和2名民主党议员。
在特朗普敦促共和党调整国会选区划分以谋取选举优势后，密苏里州州长迈克·基伊去年召集议员召开特别会议，对由民主党人伊曼纽尔·克利弗担任议员的第5国会选区进行重大重组。
克利弗在8月初选中没有对手，在过去两次选举中，他在这个以堪萨斯城为基地的选区都获得了至少60%的选票。
共和党州参议员里克·布拉廷在经过重组的第5国会选区初选中获胜。该选区被向东延伸，纳入了共和党占优势的农村地区。据美联社估算，约59%的选区选民在修改后的地图下属于新划入的范围。
克利弗没有在许多新划入的农村地区张贴竞选标语，他解释称是在等待密苏里州最高法院的裁决结果。但他誓言无论裁决结果如何，都会继续竞选连任。
“无论我们身处何地，我们都会参选，而且会全力以赴，”克利弗上月在塞达利亚的密苏里州博览会上说道，该地区已被纳入修订后的第5选区。
布拉廷是一名海军陆战队老兵，也是州议会中保守派组织“密苏里自由核心小组”的创始成员，他曾质疑克利弗能否代表范围扩大后的选区。
“我认为他的整个竞选策略就是寄希望于法院能帮他达成目的。我认为他并不代表密苏里州的价值观，”布拉廷在州博览会上曾表示。
国会选区通常每十年根据最新的人口普查数据重新划分一次。但特朗普为在中期选举中占据优势而推动的选区重划，引发了一场不同寻常的十年中期选区重划斗争，波及十多个州——仅密苏里州就引发了十二起诉讼。总体而言，共和党原本希望在全国范围内额外拿下多达10个席位。
密苏里州最高法院的这项裁决是全国范围内少数几项不利于共和党选区重划计划的裁决之一。
在此次最新裁决之前，密苏里州最高法院已经驳回了多项主张，包括特别会议非法、不允许十年中期选区重划以及新选区不够紧凑等。
“人民而非政客”组织牵头发起了此次全民公投请愿。
周三，数百人在州最高法院外集会，高呼“让我们投票！”来自杰斐逊城的格兰特·克里斯坦森表示，他已签署请愿书，要求将该选区地图交由全民投票。
“操纵选区划分和压制选民没什么两样，”克里斯坦森说道，“为了让选区偏向某一投票结果而拆分选区，这并不公平。”
Missouri Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed US House map and orders it be put to a vote
2026-09-03T23:02:22.905Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/politics/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-trump-backed-map-midterms
AP—
The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to uphold or reject the new map.
The decision Thursday marks a rare setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle. Republicans had hoped Missouri’s new congressional boundaries could help them win an additional seat and hold onto their slim House majority in the midterms.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, a Republican, said she would immediately appeal to the US Supreme Court, asserting that the decision “has thrust our state into a full‑fledged constitutional crisis.”
Missouri’s new districts were used in the August primaries. But the state Supreme Court said they cannot be used in the November general election — or ever again, unless voters first uphold the new districts passed by the Republican-led Legislature.
The court ruled that the new districts were effectively placed on hold in December, when opponents submitted over 300,000 petition signatures seeking to put the map to a vote of the people. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins waited until primary election day in August to reject the petition. He asserted that the referendum process cannot be used for congressional redistricting. A lower court agreed, but the Supreme Court overturned Hoskins’ decision.
“The referendum petition was legal, sufficient, and timely, and the secretary incorrectly concluded otherwise,” the court said in its ruling. The legislation containing the new districts “did not go into effect and will not go into effect unless and until approved by the voters.” As a result, the congressional map adopted after the 2020 census “remains in full force and effect for the November 2026 general election.”
Trump criticized the ruling in a social media post Thursday, saying that “there won’t be enough time to change the map back with the Election coming up in a very short period of time. The Election Process, as usual, is being disturbed in America! Missouri must be able to use the map that was in effect just a couple of months ago, in the Primary.”
Hanaway, whose office represented Hoskins, called the ruling an unprecedented violation of federal law.
“Never before in American history has a court overturned a congressional map after a primary and before a general election,” Hanaway said in a statement.
The Missouri Constitution does not specifically say a referendum petition can be used for a congressional redistricting law passed by the Legislature. But the Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional provision allowing a referendum on “any act” of the Legislature encompasses congressional redistricting. It rejected assertions from Hanaway’s office that federal law prohibits referendum petitions on congressional redistricting.
The ruling capped a year of political maneuvering and legal wrangling over the new districts.
Missouri currently has six Republicans and two Democrats in the US House.
After Trump urged Republicans to redraw congressional districts to their advantage, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called lawmakers into a special session last year to dramatically reconfigure the 5th Congressional District, held by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver.
Cleaver, who was unopposed in the August primary, has carried the Kansas City-based district with at least 60% of the vote in each of the past two elections.
Republican state Sen. Rick Brattin won an August primary in the reshaped 5th Congressional District, which had been stretched eastward to include rural Republican areas. About 59% of the district’s voters were new under the revised map, according to an Associated Press estimate.
Cleaver had not posted campaign signs in many of the new rural areas, explaining that he was waiting for the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision. But he had vowed to continue his reelection campaign regardless of the outcome.
“We’re going to run, and we’re going to run hard, no matter where we are,” Cleaver said last month at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, which had been added to the revised 5th District.
Brattin, a Marine veteran and founding member of the conservative Missouri Freedom Caucus in the state Legislature, had questioned whether Cleaver could represent a wider district.
“I think his whole campaign strategy was hoping that the courts would do his bidding for him. I don’t think that he represents Missouri values,” Brattin had said at the State Fair.
Congressional districts typically are redrawn at the start of each decade, based on new census data. But Trump’s quest for a midterm election advantage triggered an unusual mid-decade redistricting battle that spread to more than a dozen states — and triggered a dozen lawsuits in Missouri alone. All told, Republicans had hoped to net as many as 10 additional seats nationally.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruling was one of only a few nationally to go against Republicans’ redistricting plans.
Prior to its latest ruling, Missouri’s top court already had rejected claims that the special session was illegal, mid-decade redistricting isn’t allowed and the new districts aren’t compact enough.
The group People Not Politicians spearheaded the referendum petition.
A couple hundred people chanted “Let us vote!” while rallying Wednesday outside the state Supreme Court. Grant Christensen, of Jefferson City, said he had signed the referendum petition to put the map to a vote.
“Gerrymandering is the same as voter suppression,” Christensen said. “Cutting up districts in order to steer them to vote one way or the other is not fair.”
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