• Redistricting

Healey v. Missouri

09/28/2025
  • Missouri
  • Ongoing

Plaintiffs supported by the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF) initiated a legal challenge against the newly enacted congressional gerrymander in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, asking the court to bar the State of Missouri from using the new gerrymander in upcoming congressional elections and to strike down the new map for violating the rights of Missourians guaranteed by the state constitution. Specifically, the complaint alleges that the state’s new map drawn mid-decade violates Missourians’ right to vote in compact and equally populated congressional districts guaranteed by the Missouri Constitution, by subjugating the state’s neutral redistricting criteria to partisan considerations. Specifically, the Missouri Constitution requires that each district in a lawful congressional map plan to have districts drawn as “compact … as may be.” The map adopted by the Missouri General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Kehoe dramatically reduces the compactness of CDs 4, 5, and 6 in violation of the constitutional mandate. The Missouri Supreme Court has recognized that the “mandatory” requirement of compactness includes a consideration of historical district boundaries. This new map drastically reshapes Kansas City-based CD 5 by splitting the district into three districts, some of which stretch hundreds of miles away from the city. The NRF is directing litigation and providing financial support on behalf of the Healey plaintiffs in this case.

The litigation is ongoing.

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