Federal appeals court orders Missouri to use congressional map rejected twice by Supreme Court

A Missouri appeals court ordered Monday that the state must use a GOP-drawn congressional map in November’s elections, reversing a series of Supreme Court decisions.

The St. Louis-based Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling Monday, just one day before absentee and mail-in ballots were slated to be sent out to voters. Military and overseas voters have already begun to receive ballots, according to the Associated Press.

"This Court holds that Missouri’s current plan to...