No partisan mid-decade redistricting can survive state constitutional and referendum hurdles.
State supreme courts are increasingly relying on state-level constitutional limitations and direct citizen referendums to strike down and freeze mid-decade congressional map overhauls.
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The Missouri map fight's arc — referendum petition plus courts freezing the mid-decade overhaul — instantiates the referendum-hurdle law.
A Trump-backed mid-decade map died against the referendum mechanism and repeated court blocks, with the referendum itself still on the ballot.
The state's supreme court struck down a partisan redistricting campaign because it failed to comply with strict state constitutional requirements.
The nation's highest court upheld the state supreme court's order, confirming that a valid state-level citizen referendum successfully froze the mid-decade gerrymander.