{"id":78267,"date":"2026-09-04T06:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-congressional-maps-backed-by-trump-for-midterms-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T06:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:54:46","slug":"missouri-supreme-court-blocks-congressional-maps-backed-by-trump-for-midterms-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-congressional-maps-backed-by-trump-for-midterms-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri supreme court blocks congressional maps backed by Trump for midterms \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision marks a setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\"><strong>Sign up for US Breaking News emails<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Missouri House race has been rocked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2026\/09\/03\/missouri-house-candidate-charged-in-plot-to-plant-drugs-on-republican-primary-opponent\/\">Wednesday arrest<\/a> of Republican candidate Thomas Ross, whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdmo\/pr\/missouri-state-congressional-candidate-charged-conspiring-distribute-cocaine-frame-0\">prosecutors accuse <\/a>of attempting to frame his primary opponent Louise Secker for cocaine possession.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In June, Ross allegedly gave his former campaign manager, identified by the initials \u201cCS\u201d in court documents, a bag of cocaine and Adderall. The two allegedly devised a plan for the former manager to stash the drugs in Secker\u2019s purse or vehicle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/04\/missouri-supreme-court-congressional-district-map-mail-in-voting-us-canada-trade-war-executive-orders-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision marks a setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle Sign up for US Breaking News emails A Missouri House race has been rocked by the Wednesday arrest of Republican candidate Thomas Ross, whom prosecutors accuse of attempting to frame his primary opponent Louise Secker for cocaine possession. In June, Ross allegedly gave &#8230; <a title=\"Missouri supreme court blocks congressional maps backed by Trump for midterms \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-congressional-maps-backed-by-trump-for-midterms-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Missouri supreme court blocks congressional maps backed by Trump for midterms \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}