Wise v. State; Healey v. State
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the state’s new congressional map, finding it did not violate a provision that “districts shall be composed of contiguous territory as compact and as nearly equal in population as may be.” The court affirmed a lower court ruling. Voters had alleged the new map violated the compactness requirement by splitting the Kansas City metropolitan area into three mishapen districts, as well as the equal protection and contiguity requirements by double assigning a Kansas City precinct to two different congressional districts.
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