A divided Missouri Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state’s mid-decade congressional redistricting, a victory for Republican officials who enacted a new map that could oust a veteran Democratic lawmaker in the November election.
In a 4-3 decision Tuesday, the state’s highest court said the Missouri Constitution doesn’t expressly limit the legislature’s power to redistrict more frequently than once every 10 years, after each census.
Missouri Republican legislators implemented new lines last summer that dismantled the Kansas City-area 5th District of 11-term Democratic Rep.