{"id":4801,"date":"2025-09-10T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/after-hearing-from-trump-missouri-gop-muscle-gerrymandered-map-forward-in-state-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:39:58","slug":"after-hearing-from-trump-missouri-gop-muscle-gerrymandered-map-forward-in-state-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/after-hearing-from-trump-missouri-gop-muscle-gerrymandered-map-forward-in-state-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After hearing from Trump, Missouri GOP muscle gerrymandered map forward in state Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/091025_beck3-scaled-e1757547726290-1024x614.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-Affton, speaks against proposed Senate rule changes Wednesday during the special session for redistricting (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n<p><span>Just hours after hearing from President Donald Trump during a caucus meeting, Republicans in the Missouri Senate showed they are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/07\/25\/trump-white-house-pressing-missouri-republicans-to-redraw-congressional-map\/\"><span>ready to please him<\/span><\/a><span> by shoving a new congressional district map to passage over opposition from Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The General Assembly is meeting in special session to revise the state\u2019s eight congressional districts so Republicans are likely to win seven instead of the six they currently hold. The Missouri House has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/09\/09\/missouri-house-passes-gerrymandered-congressional-map-limits-on-initiative-petitions\/\"><span>already approved the map<\/span><\/a><span> sought by Trump, who on Tuesday demanded on social media that the Senate do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Missouri Senate must pass this Map now, AS IS, to deliver a gigantic Victory for Republicans in the \u2018Show Me State,\u2019 and across the Country,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To push the bill to final passage by Friday, Republicans had to get the two bills passed in the House into position for committee hearings on Thursday. But before that could take place, the chamber had to vote on rules for the session and Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O\u2019Laughlin rolled out revisions intended to make House bills the Senate\u2019s top priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And to get those revisions passed, they voted to shut off debate \u2014 using a once-rare motion known as the previous question. This year saw a major break from tradition, when Republicans used the motion to slam through partisan priorities at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/05\/14\/missouri-republicans-shut-down-senate-debate-to-pass-abortion-ban-repeal-sick-leave-law\/\"><span>end of the regular session<\/span><\/a><span> in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was the first time since 2017 when the previous question was used during a regular session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The proposed rule changes triggered a Democratic-led debate that consumed two hours before Republicans forced a vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For about two hours, Democrats accused the Republicans of cheating by substituting the new rules instead of using the rules used <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/webPDFs\/RuleBook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span>during this year\u2019s regular session<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 and for the veto session that took place just minutes before the chamber convened for the special session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor those of you that are going to be here for a few years, why would you give away your power just to make today a little bit easier?\u201d said state Sen. Stephen Webber, a Democrat from Columbia. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make any sense, and it really saddens me, because I don\u2019t know where it stops.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27063\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/091025_webber2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>State Sen. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, looks to the Senate dais in a disagreement over Senate rules (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>The new rules were not distributed before the session convened and many Republicans were not informed in advance the changes were coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>State Sen. Joe Nicola, a Republican from Independence, said he was given the new rules and the bill on congressional maps <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/09\/09\/missouri-house-passes-gerrymandered-congressional-map-limits-on-initiative-petitions\/\"><span>approved in the Missouri House<\/span><\/a><span> with the expectation he would be an automatic vote in favor of both. But Webber\u2019s point was valid, he said, and he\u2019s not ready to go along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m nobody\u2019s puppet. I will never be anybody\u2019s puppet,\u201d Nicola said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to come down here and be expected to rubber stamp anything. That is not what I was elected to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nicola voted along with all Republicans to table a motion by Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, a Democrat from Affton, to use the rules that governed the regular session in the spring. <span>But when the chamber voted on the previous question motion, Nicola and state Sen. Mike Moon, a Republican of Ash Grove, voted with nine Democrats to continue debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The previous question motion is used commonly in the Missouri House, but until this year it was considered a last resort in the Senate. When the votes were held, Democrats started calling the presiding officer of the Senate \u201cSpeaker\u201d instead of \u201cPresident.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere are no speakers in the Missouri Senate,\u201d said state Sen. Jason Bean of Holcomb, who was presiding at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the vote, the House bills were read and the Senate will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday to move them to committees for hearings later in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>    <\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"editorialSubhed\">Flipping the 5th District<\/h4>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>The Republicans\u2019 target is the 5th Congressional District, currently held by U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City, a Democrat who has been in office since 2005. The map being considered would split the district into pieces, putting portions in the 4th and 6th districts and adding enough Republican votes to what remains to flip the district to the GOP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gov. Mike Kehoe also wants lawmakers to pass a state constitutional amendment <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/09\/08\/missouri-house-advances-bill-to-make-it-harder-for-voters-to-amend-state-constitution\/\"><span>raising the majority requirement<\/span><\/a><span> for passing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative petition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead of a statewide majority deciding the questions, initiative proposals would have to win majorities statewide and in every congressional district. That would allow <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/09\/04\/as-few-as-5-of-voters-could-defeat-initiative-petitions-under-missouri-gop-legislation\/\"><span>as few as 5% of voters<\/span><\/a><span> to decide the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it is Trump\u2019s insistence on a new congressional map to shore up the GOP\u2019s shaky majority in the U.S. House that is the main focus of the special session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a caucus of the Republican senators Wednesday, Trump called Kehoe and spoke to the members through the governor\u2019s phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>State Sen. Nick Schroer, a Republican from Defiance, insisted in an interview that the special session was not called just because Trump wanted it. The proposed new map puts all of Schroer\u2019s county into the 3rd Congressional District \u2014 it is now split between the 3rd and the 2nd districts \u2014 and he said that will keep a community together in the same district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But when asked whether Kansas City, which is almost entirely in the 5th District but would have its population split among three in the proposed map, deserved the same consideration, Schroer said it did not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDonald Trump is encouraging Republicans to grow a spine, and stop bending the knee to the Democrats to avoid filibusters like we did in 2022,\u201d Schroer said. \u201cIt\u2019s really helped and it\u2019s binding the Republican Party back together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27070\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/091025_nurrenbern1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>State Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern, D-Kansas City, compares the State Senate to the House, remarking about the lack of debate allowed (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Democrats have vowed to challenge any new map in court and plans are being formed to force a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/09\/10\/gop-push-to-gerrymander-missouri-congressional-map-could-be-decided-at-the-ballot\/\"><span>statewide referendum on the bill<\/span><\/a><span>. On Monday, Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh will hold a hearing on a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/cnet\/cases\/newHeader.do?inputVO.caseNumber=25AC-CC06724&amp;inputVO.courtId=SMPDB0004_CT19#header\" target=\"_blank\"><span>lawsuit filed by the NAACP<\/span><\/a><span> challenging the legal basis for calling a special session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At a news conference on Wednesday morning,\u00a0 Beck said Republicans are rigging congressional elections because the policies they have pursued since Trump took office again are proving extremely unpopular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And, he said, Republicans are trying to protect Trump from being shown to be a friend of deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe thing that frightens them the most, the thing that keeps them up at night, the thing that sends cold sweat down their back as they rub elbows at their elite country clubs is that if Democrats retake the House, they will release the Epstein files,\u201d Beck said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Capitol was filled with opponents of the redistricting plan on Wednesday. And as the Senate adjourned for the day, Suzanne Till of Dent County said she would be back to continue the opposition on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf we don\u2019t at least make a presence, then they\u2019re going to railroad us,\u201d Till said. \u201cAnd also, I\u2019m just gobstopped that they would just so openly, and brazenly, try to snatch away voters\u2019 voices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was updated at 8 p.m. on Sept. 10 to correct the report on Nicola\u2019s vote and clarify how the Senate action occurred.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-Affton, speaks against proposed Senate rule changes Wednesday during the special session for redistricting (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent). Just hours after hearing from President Donald Trump during a caucus meeting, Republicans in the Missouri Senate showed they are ready to please him by shoving a new congressional district map to passage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>After hearing from Trump, Missouri GOP muscle gerrymandered map forward in state Senate - WestplexNews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/after-hearing-from-trump-missouri-gop-muscle-gerrymandered-map-forward-in-state-senate-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"After hearing from Trump, Missouri GOP muscle gerrymandered map forward in state Senate - WestplexNews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-Affton, speaks against proposed Senate rule changes Wednesday during the special session for redistricting (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent). 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