The Missouri Supreme Court found Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt on Thursday for telling officials to use a new congressional map for the November election, but that Hoskins had “purged” himself of the contempt by reversing course later in the day.

The contempt finding stemmed from a weeklong legal war over whether state officials should use a congressional map passed in 2025, which would likely give Republicans a 7-1 advantage over Democrats, or the congressional map passed in 2022 and used in the 2022 and 2024 elections, which has given the GOP a 6-2 advantage over Democrats. The Missouri Supreme Court found last week that the 2025 map would face a referendum in November, and that the 2022 map would therefore be used for the upcoming election, despite the fact that the 2025 map was used for the August primary election. But a federal district court ordered Missouri officials to use the 2025 map on Tuesday, setting up conflicting rulings between state and federal courts.