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Read more Missouri seeks to use congressional redistricting map expected to benefit Republicans
At the Court
Late on Tuesday, the dispute over congressional redistricting in Missouri returned to the Supreme Court’s interim docket, when opponents of the state’s new map, which favors Republicans, again asked the justices to prevent it from being used in November’s elections. On Wednesday, the state, as well as the two political candidates and two individual voters who have fought to reinstate the new map, filed to this request. For more on the case, see the On Site section below.
Also on Wednesday, the court a request for a stay of execution from Ker’Sean Ramey, who was sentenced to death for the 2005 murders of Celso Lopez, Tiffani Peacock, and Sam Roberts. Hours later, Ramey was executed in Texas.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to identify noncitizens on state voter rolls. The dispute is now fully briefed, and the court’s decision could come at any time.
On Monday, the justices will gather at the “long conference” to consider the petitions for review that built up during their summer recess.
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