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Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is convening a special legislative session to focus on gerrymandering and initiative petition changes (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n

Missouri lawmakers will return to the Capitol next week to gerrymander the state\u2019s congressional map in the hopes of creating a new Republican seat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They will also debate putting a constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot that would make it harder for voters to change the constitution through the initiative petition process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both proposals were included in the special legislative session agenda crafted by Gov. Mike Kehoe and announced on Friday. The move has been expected for weeks, with Missouri Republicans f<\/span>acing pressure from President Donald Trump <\/span><\/a>to redraw U.S. House districts so the GOP can win more seats in next year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThis is about clarity for voters and ownership of our future, and I hope the legislature will work together to pass our Missouri First Map and critically needed IP reform,\u201d Kehoe said in a statement Friday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Missouri has eight congressional districts, and Democrats hold two. The new map would split Kansas City, which is currently entirely in the 5th District and represented by 11-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, into three districts where Republicans would have an electoral edge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The intended result is a map where the GOP holds 90% of the state\u2019s seats in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s unprecedented directive to redraw our maps in the middle of the decade and without an updated census is not an act of democracy \u2014 it is an unconstitutional attack against it,\u201d Cleaver said shortly after the proposed new map was revealed. \u201cThis attempt to gerrymander Missouri will not simply change district lines, it will silence voices. It will deny representation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/i> Proposed congressional maps released Friday by the governor\u2019s office.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, a Democrat from St. Louis County, said the president\u2019s motivation for the gerrymandering push is fear of voters seeing files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Democrats retake the House, they will release the Epstein Files, and this scares the hell out of President Trump,\u201d Beck said. \u201cThat\u2019s why the President has ordered Missouri to rubber stamp a rigged map drawn in Washington D.C. because he knows Missouri Republicans would rather protect pedophiles than say \u2018no\u2019 to Donald Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As for changes to the initiative petition process, Republicans are pushing a plan that would require a statewide majority and a majority vote in five of the state\u2019s eight congressional districts in order to approve a constitutional amendment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, a simple majority is all that is required.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under that \u201cconcurrent majority\u201d standard, analysis by The Independent last year found that <\/span>as few as 23% of voters<\/span><\/a> could defeat a statewide ballot measure.<\/span><\/p>\n

The gerrymandering and initiative petition push will begin in the Missouri House next week, with the expectation that bills will be sent to the Missouri Senate for it to consider them during the legislature\u2019s annual veto session on Sept. 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers. The bills are unlikely to face any stumbling blocks in the House, but Senate Democrats are expected to use the filibuster and other procedural maneuvers to gum up legislative business as much as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to overcome the gridlock, Senate Republicans may once again have to break a filibuster and force a vote by turning to a rule that was previously rarely-used but got deployed twice during the regular legislative session in May.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing so would create even more bad blood in a legislative chamber already teetering on the edge of full on partisan collapse and could upend the 2026 session before it even gets started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also questions about whether redistricting now would violate Missouri\u2019s constitution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Missouri Constitution calls for the legislature to draw new congressional districts every 10 years after new census numbers are certified to the governor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That happened in 2022, which attorneys Chuck Hatfield and Alix Cossette argue means new districts cannot be drawn until the next census is complete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe plain language of the Missouri Constitution and the Missouri Supreme Court\u2019s precedent make clear that mid-cycle congressional redistricting is prohibited,\u201d Hatfield and Cossette, two longtime Democratic attorneys, wrote in a memo laying out issues with the GOP plan. \u201cAny attempt to do so will draw a substantial legal challenge which will likely succeed and invalidate any map adopted by the General Assembly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also questions about whether relying on population data could also lead to a court throwing out any new map.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kehoe acknowledged the <\/span>questions about the legality of the plan <\/span><\/a>while speaking to reporters Friday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard opinions on both sides of that conversation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will get settled in due time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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