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Telling the justices that “[a] federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,” Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins came to the Supreme Court on Friday night

A Missouri man on Monday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that bars the state from using a new congressional map that could give Republicans an additional seat in the upcoming November elections. Richard von Glahn, one of the organizers of a referendum that would put the new map up for a vote on November’s ballot, told the justices that the case “does not present a real emergency.”

For the second time in three days, the Trump administration on Tuesday came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to clear the way for it to implement a program that it says is intended to combat election fraud. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the court to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that bars the government from using the current version of the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to verify voters’ citizenship. Sauer told the justices that the order by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan “makes it harder to detect ineligible voters, undermining the integrity of federal elections and public confidence in the results of those elections.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday blocked Missouri from using a new congressional map, intended to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in the November elections. In a brief order sent to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Kavanaugh – who handles emergency appeals from the 8th Circuit, which includes Missouri – turned down a request from the state’s top election official to pause a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that bars the state from deploying the new map.

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California, joined by a group of 22 states and the District of Columbia, urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Boston that prohibits the Trump administration from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. Ian Fein, California’s deputy solicitor general, told the justices that “USPS’ unprecedented experiment with our Nation’s most cherished franchise—the right to vote—is unlawful.”

Just one day after Justice Brett Kavanaugh left in place a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that barred Missouri from using a new congressional map, intended to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in the November elections, the opponents of that map

Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday blocked Missouri from using a new congressional map, intended to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S.

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning paused a ruling by a federal judge in Missouri that would have allowed the state to use a new congressional map intended to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming elections. In a brief, unsigned order, the court granted a request by the organizers of a referendum on the new map to put a ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark on hold while litigation in the dispute moves forward.

Arguing that a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit “threatens to inject mass confusion into five U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the Ninth Circuit that collectively handle over 8000 civil and criminal cases annually,” the Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court