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As Missouri Supreme Court judges considered the extraordinary move of holding the state’s top election official in contempt, his attorney signaled on Thursday that he may continue to defy an order blocking a gerrymandered GOP map for the midterms.
“Most prominently, appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court erred in determining that the Final Rule is likely unlawful,” the 1st Circuit said.
“Your failure to preserve relevant data may subject you to civil and criminal sanctions,” the Justice Department’s demand letter reads.
A federal judge rejected a last-minute bid from Missouri’s top election official to avoid a state Supreme Court hearing Thursday morning on whether he is in contempt of court for ordering local officials to use a voting map the justices explicitly barred.
The consequences of the court’s ruling are enormous: At stake is a voting method relied on by millions of Americans, including the nation’s most vulnerable voters.
The Indiana Supreme Court is set to decide whether a Republican state senator who bucked President Donald Trump’s demand for a gerrymandered map will keep his seat in a race that’s come down to a narrow three-vote margin.
Opponents of Missouri’s GOP gerrymander asked the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to temporarily block a district court order that has thrown elections into last-minute chaos, with local officials overdue to finalize ballots for the 2026 midterms.
If the Supreme Court lifts the preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued in State of California v. USPS, it may rely on Purcell to rationalize the chaos that decision would unleash. And, in doing so, the justices would prove their critics right by stretching the precedent’s already-overextended precepts far beyond the limits of logic.
A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleged Tuesday that a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting rule this November.
Ohio asked the 6th Circuit to pause a lower court ruling that blocked a state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
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