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Missouri’s congressional redistricting fight escalated again as opponents of the state’s Trump-backed GOP gerrymander asked a federal judge to immediately pause his order requiring the map to be used in November — while also taking the fight to a federal appeals court.
A federal judge temporarily revived Missouri Republicans’ congressional gerrymander for the 2026 midterms, just after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected the state’s separate emergency effort to restore the map.
The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog confirmed it is investigating allegations from a whistleblower who warned that the agency’s rushed implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order could disrupt the midterms and prevent voters from receiving ballots.
The Justice Department argued that states facing the earliest deadlines for mailing ballots have not shown compliance is impossible.
The Trump administration urged a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to let the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) impose sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the midterms.
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s effort to immediately revive the use of a sweeping immigration database to check voter rolls, leaving in place a ruling that shut down a major piece of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda ahead of the midterms.
Democratic officials, voting rights advocates and state election leaders celebrated a ruling that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the 2026 midterms — casting the ruling as a victory for voting access and state control of elections.
In a win for voters, a federal appeals court kept in place a lower court ruling that blocked key provisions of New Hampshire’s 2024 anti-voting law.
The Trump administration has repeatedly gone to court this week seeking to revive its sweeping mail ballot restrictions before the midterms. But it still has not directly denied some of the most alarming allegations about how the U.S. Postal Service plans to enforce them.
The Missouri Supreme Court greenlit a citizen-led redistricting referendum for this year’s November ballot — marking the end of a grueling, nearly year-long battle by voters to have the final say over a gerrymandered congressional map drawn up at President Donald Trump’s request.
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