Thursday, January 26, 2012

SUPCO Declines Redistricting Case

The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday declined to strike down new state legislative districts, and suggested opponents of new state House districts take up their fight before a trial judge.









Missouri's high court declined the request to block a new map for the 163-member state House but permitted a legal challenge to be filed in circuit court. An attorney representing more than a dozen people who challenged the new House districts said the suit could be filed soon. The Supreme Court this month rejected new districts for the 34-member state Senate and ordered further legal review by a trial court in two separate lawsuits challenging a new U.S. House map that reconfigures the state into eight districts instead of the current nine.

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