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Legal Claims and Court Decisions
- The Challenge: Plaintiffs claimed districts 4, 5, and 6 lacked proper compactness and divided closely tied communities in the Kansas City area.
- The Defense: State officials argued the map followed boundaries well and fit state constitutional standards.
- The Ruling: The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that challengers did not prove the map broke Article III, Section 45 of the Missouri Constitution, keeping the map in place
“Amendments 4 and 5 have been buried so deep in citizen rejection, they should never come back,” said Scott Charton, spokesman for the two Missouri Realtor-funded opposition groups, Missourians for Fair Governance and Missourians for Fair Taxation.One measure of the magnitude of the “no” vote is that it created a mirror image of the majority requirement Amendment 4 would have imposed on constitutional amendments proposed by initiative. Amendment 4 would have required amendments to achieve a majority in every congressional district in order to pass///////// a big defeat for republicans. Trump can't use tax payer to pay cop beaters