Missouri asks Supreme Court to overturn block of new congressional map before election

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Missouri is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the state Supreme Court’s blockage of a new congressional map ahead of the November general election.

In an emergency application to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Missouri officials argued that the state’s highest court has created a “federal-election-administration disaster” by ordering the state to revert to its previous congressional map after Missouri already conducted its August primary under the new boundaries.

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