Yes. On September 21, 2026, the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a Republican-drawn Missouri congressional map that dismantled Kansas City Democrat Emanuel Cleaver’s district, Reuters reported. The panel directed a lower court to enter a permanent injunction allowing that map, but said its ruling would be paused until September 28, 2026 at 5 p.m. CT so the U.S. Supreme Court could weigh in.
Without further Supreme Court intervention, Missouri officials said they would keep using a prior map that left Cleaver’s seat intact for the November midterms. Missouri’s state supreme court had blocked the new map on September 3, and the U.S. Supreme Court had already paused a federal order that would have forced the Republican map into use.