Once each decade, the drawing of congressional lines becomes a contest not merely over geography but over power itself — and Missouri's redistricting dispute has grown into something rarer still: a confrontation between courts and the officials sworn to carry out their orders. The state's Supreme Court is weighing contempt charges against its own chief election official, while the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on questions of compliance, authority, and the limits of judicial reach. At stake is not only which map Missouri voters will live under for the next ten years, but whether cour