{"id":79167,"date":"2026-09-25T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/supreme-court-blocks-trump-backed-missouri-congressional-map-from-use-in-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:55:15","slug":"supreme-court-blocks-trump-backed-missouri-congressional-map-from-use-in-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/supreme-court-blocks-trump-backed-missouri-congressional-map-from-use-in-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map from use in midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court puts end to long-running legal dispute as it rules Republican-friendly map cannot be used in November<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is under way in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The justices halted a federal appeals court ruling that would have revived the Republican-friendly map for the November elections, which will determine control of Congress. There were no noted dissents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/25\/supreme-court-missouri-maps-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court puts end to long-running legal dispute as it rules Republican-friendly map cannot be used in November The supreme court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is under way in the midterm elections. &#8230; <a title=\"Supreme court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map from use in midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/supreme-court-blocks-trump-backed-missouri-congressional-map-from-use-in-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Supreme court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map from use in midterms\">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-79167","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\/79167","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=79167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}