Appellants’ Opening Brief

On April 16, 2026, Appellants’ filed their opening brief for their appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Last month, the district court ruled against Plaintiffs (individual voters in Missouri represented by Campaign Legal Center, ACLU and ACLU of Missouri) on their claim that the 2025 Missouri congressional map violates the Missouri Constitution’s compactness requirement by splitting the single district previously centered in Kansas City into three districts. Plaintiffs (now Appellants) have appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court on the grounds that the district court misapplied the legal standard at issue in this case. Appellants have requested that the lower court’s ruling be reversed and the 2025 Missouri congressional map be enjoined.