For the third time, Missouri's congressional map has arrived at the steps of the Supreme Court — a map drawn in the shadow of partisan ambition and carried forward by the endorsement of former President Trump. That a single redistricting plan has required three separate visits to the nation's highest court speaks to something deeper than legal procedure: it reflects the unresolved tension between democratic representation and political power that redistricting has always embodied. The boundaries of a congressional district are never merely lines on a map — they are decisions about whose voice