Supreme Court Faces New Challenge to Missouri's GOP-Favoring Congressional Map

Once again, the boundaries of American democracy are being drawn not by voters but by the courts that referee the maps those voters must navigate. A federal appeals court has upheld Missouri's Republican-redrawn congressional districts, permitting a map designed to entrench partisan advantage to govern the coming midterm elections — and in doing so, has sent the deeper question of how much manipulation the Constitution tolerates back toward the Supreme Court. The case is less about Missouri than about the recurring American struggle to determine whether electoral fairness is a legal right or m