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Get you up to speed: Supreme Court rebuffs Missouri’s request for new House map favoring Republicans

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Missouri officials to implement new congressional districts backed by President Trump for the November elections. The ruling upholds a decision by Missouri’s Supreme Court that the new districts cannot be used due to a citizen petition calling for a statewide vote.

The Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling means Proposition A will be on the November ballot, allowing voters to decide on the state’s congressional redistricting. This decision follows a citizen petition and marks a significant deviation from the congressional map approved by the state legislature last year.

The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered that the state must revert to congressional districts adopted after the last census, assigning redistricting referendum Proposition A to the November ballot. Republican Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected, and she expressed concerns about the potential for “unprecedented chaos” in federal election administration as a result of the ongoing disputes.

What remains unclear — It is uncertain how the ongoing dispute over redistricting will affect the Republican Party’s strategy in the upcoming midterm elections.

Supreme Court denies Missouri’s request for new Republican-favoured House map

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed an appeal from Missouri officials who wanted to use new congressional districts backed by President Trump in the November election, a defeat for Republicans who had hoped the new map could help them hold on to their slim House majority.

The justices let stand a decision by Missouri’s top court, which said the new districts cannot be used in the November elections because they were superseded by a citizen petition demanding a statewide vote.

The ruling marks a rare setback for Republicans in a nationwide redistricting battle that Mr. Trump urged Republicans to launch last year. The new House maps, passed by the state legislature last year, would dramatically redraw longtime Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-area district, making it GOP-leaning.

Missouri’s new districts were used in the August primaries. But the Missouri Supreme Court ruled last week that the state must revert to districts adopted after the last census.

Republican state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, who appealed, had argued it would violate federal rights to switch districts for voters between the primary and general elections. She also said it would cause confusion.

“A federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,” Hanaway wrote in an emergency application for the U.S. Supreme Court to put the ruling on hold, warning it could lead to “unprecedented chaos” and render the primary “utterly pointless.”

She continued: “Looking forwards, the State is genuinely unsure whether it can switch its governing congressional map in time to run a timely federal election.”

Richard Von Glahn, who sued over the new maps, urged the Supreme Court not to intervene, writing that the state “waited as long as possible to manufacture the present dispute over Missouri’s congressional districting map” by not moving to reject the petition for a referendum until last month.

Hanaway’s request for the U.S. Supreme Court to step in was rejected by Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday.

Missouri currently is represented in the House by six Republicans and two Democrats who were elected under districts that Republican state officials approved in 2022.

But at Mr. Trump’s urging, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called the Legislature into a special session last year to redraw congressional boundaries to their advantage ahead of the midterms.

The revised map targeted the 5th Congressional District, held by Cleaver. It reassigned portions of Kansas City to two neighboring districts represented by Republicans and stretched the remainder of Cleaver’s district far eastward into rural Republican areas.

Cleaver was unopposed in the Democratic primary. State Sen. Rick Brattin won the Republican primary in the reshaped district.

On the same day as the primary, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected a petition with thousands of signatures seeking to force a November referendum on the map. Hoskins asserted that Missouri’s Constitution doesn’t allow a referendum on congressional redistricting. A lower court agreed, but the state Supreme Court reversed Hoskins’ decision.

The state’s top court said the new districts were retroactively frozen in December, when the petition signatures were submitted, and thus never became law. Hoskins on Tuesday assigned the redistricting referendum as Proposition A on the November ballot, in compliance with the state court order.

The Missouri Constitution does not specifically say that a referendum can be used for congressional redistricting. But the state Supreme Court said a constitutional provision allowing a referendum on “any act” of the Legislature encompasses congressional redistricting legislation.

Missouri was the second Republican-led state, after Texas, to respond to Mr. Trump’s call last year to redraw congressional districts. Several other states followed. All told, Republicans had hoped to win as many as 16 additional seats from new House maps enacted in eight states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. 

Democrats, whose counterattack faced several setbacks, think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah.

It remains to be seen whether the redistricting works as intended for Republicans. The president’s party historically has lost congressional seats in the midterms, and Mr. Trump’s poor approval ratings could provide an extra hurdle for Republican candidates.

Get you up to speed: Israeli ministers want Britain to be sanctioned for ‘occupying’ the Falklands | News World

Israeli ministers, including Itamar Ben Gvir, have called for new sanctions against the UK, labelling its presence in the Falkland Islands as an ‘occupation’ of Argentine territory. This statement follows the announcement that UK officials are expected to impose a trade ban on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Israeli ministers, including Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, have called for the expulsion of the British ambassador to Israel amidst heightened tensions regarding the Falkland Islands. The UK has recently imposed sanctions against individuals linked to violence in the occupied West Bank, including Daniella Weiss, reflecting ongoing international concerns over Israeli settlements.

Israeli ministers are advocating for sanctions against the UK for its actions in the Falkland Islands, with Itamar Ben Gvir urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Argentina’s claims to the territory. This escalation follows the announcement by Andy Burnham of plans to impose a trade ban on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

What remains unclear — It is uncertain whether the UK will respond to the calls for sanctions from Israeli ministers regarding the Falkland Islands.

Israeli ministers call for UK sanctions over Falkland Islands ‘occupation’

Israeli ministers call for UK sanctions over Falkland Islands ‘occupation’
Itamar Ben Gvir claimed that Britain is ‘violently stealing’ from Argentina (Picture: Getty)

Israeli ministers have called for new sanctions to be imposed on the UK for what they describe as its ‘occupation’ of the Falkland Islands.

The new tension comes hours after it was revealed that Andy Burnham is expected to impose a trade ban on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir said: ‘I call upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Argentina’s sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and to impose sanctions on Great Britain as long as the occupation continues.’

Mr Gvir and fellow minister Bezalel Smotrich also suggested the British ambassador to Israel should be ‘expelled’.

Mr Gvir continued: ‘It’s time for the state of Israel to publicly recognise that the Malvinas Islands [the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands] are Argentine territory under occupation, which the British violently steal from the Argentine people.

‘The British are not content with merely occupying the territory; they also carry out oil drilling there and steal the money from the Argentine people.’

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This is despite a 2013 referendum in which the Falkland Islanders voted overwhelmingly to remain a British overseas territory, with 99.8% voting in favour and just three votes against.

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In 2013, residents voted to remain as a British overseas territory (Picture: AFP)

Armed Israeli soldiers stand guard in an alleyway in the Old City of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on September 5, 2026. The area is routinely secured by troops to allow Israeli settlers to tour the city. (Photo by Mosab Shawer / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
Israeli soldiers have occupied the West Bank for years (Picture: AFP)

But last week, Argentine President Javier Milei said: ‘I want to be quite clear with everybody. The Falklands are Argentinian. Historically and legally. There can be no argument. They are part of the Argentine territory.

‘The islanders on their usurped territory do not have a legitimate right to self-determination, and any argument on any such self-determination is invalid.’

The comments appear to be in response to the UK’s planned sanctions targeting Israel’s illegal annexation of the West Bank.

Although nominally governed by Palestinians, much of what is formally part of the West Bank is under Israeli control, with military checkpoints and segregated roads.

The Palestinian Authority controls just 17% of the West Bank, although this accounts for most of the area’s Palestinian population.

The Israeli settlements, which break international law, have gradually encroached on Palestinian territory and carved gaps between Palestinian cities, towns and villages.

Once opposed by Israel’s governments, the settlements have since received backing and military protection from Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration.

Daniella Weiss, often referred to as the ‘godmother’ of Israel’s settler movement, is among several people sanctioned by the UK  over inciting or carrying out violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

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