# Emanuel Cleaver Type: Person Source: GetYourBrief — https://getyourbrief.com/entity/emanuel-cleaver Canonical HTML page: https://getyourbrief.com/entity/emanuel-cleaver ## Timeline - **2026-09-19**: Absentee ballot mailing deadline — Federal statutory deadline to mail absentee ballots to overseas citizens and military voters. - **2026-09-09**: Federal appeals court sides with Republicans — A federal appeals court panel declines to halt a federal judge's order favoring the Trump-backed map; the decision is immediately appealed to the Supreme Court. - **2026-09-08**: Kavanaugh denies emergency stay — Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Missouri's emergency request to suspend the state Supreme Court ruling, without referring the matter to the full Court or stating reasons. - **2026-09-08**: Federal judge orders map used — Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark issued a temporary order in a suit filed by Rep. Bob Onder requiring Missouri to use the GOP-drawn map for the November 3 midterms. - **2026-09-08**: Supreme Court lets state ruling stand — The U.S. Supreme Court lets stand a Missouri Supreme Court ruling against the Trump-backed districts. - **2026-09-03**: Missouri Supreme Court blocks new map — The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously rules the referendum petition was legal, sufficient, and timely, holding that the new districts never took effect and that the 2020-census map remains in force for the November 2026 general election. - **2026-09-03**: Missouri Supreme Court blocks map — The seven-member Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the GOP-drawn map must be approved by voters in a November referendum before it can take effect. - **2026-08**: New districts used in August primaries; Hoskins rejects petition — The new congressional districts are used in the August primaries. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins waits until primary election day to reject the referendum petition, arguing the referendum process cannot apply to congressional redistricting. - **2026-08**: Hoskins rejects referendum petition — Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejects the petition on Missouri's primary day, asserting referenda cannot be used for congressional redistricting. - **2025-12**: Referendum petition filed — Opponents file a referendum petition with more than 300,000 signatures seeking to block the GOP-drawn congressional map passed by the Republican-led legislature. - **2025-12**: Referendum signatures submitted — Redistricting opponents submit hundreds of thousands of petition signatures seeking a statewide vote on the new districts. - **2025-09**: Missouri legislature passes new congressional map — State lawmakers pass new U.S. House districts targeting Kansas City-based Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's seat, aiming for a 7-1 Republican split. - **2025**: GOP-drawn map adopted — Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature adopted the congressional map as part of a broader national redistricting effort backed by President Trump. ## Recent coverage (3 stories, network-wide) ### Missouri Map Chaos: SCOTUS Faces Dueling Rulings 9 Days Before Ballot Deadline 2026-09-10 03:10:30 · Sector: legal · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 3 Conflicting state and federal rulings over Missouri's congressional map have thrown the state's eight House races into legal limbo, forcing the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in just nine days before the September 19 overseas-ballot mailing deadline. The case tests unresolved boundaries from Moore v. Harper between state and federal judicial authority, and whether the Purcell principle can discipline late-stage redistricting litigation. Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/missouri-map-scotus-dueling-rulings-ballot-deadline ### 2 Courts, 1 Map: Kavanaugh Denies Stay, Federal Judge Orders GOP Map 2026-09-09 05:49:12 · Sector: legal · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2 On September 8, 2026, Justice Kavanaugh declined to stay a Missouri Supreme Court ruling requiring a voter referendum before the GOP's 2025 congressional map can take effect, only for Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark to order the state to use that map for the November 3 midterms. The result is an irreconcilable conflict between state and federal judicial commands. For legal professionals, the dispute tests Rooker-Feldman limits, Moore v. Harper's rejection of the independent state legislature theory, and the Purcell principle weeks before an election. Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/missouri-congressional-map-conflicting-court-orders ### MO Supreme Court blocks GOP map after 300K+ signatures, orders vote 2026-09-04 02:11:05 · Sector: legal · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2 The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously held that a referendum petition with more than 300,000 signatures was valid, blocking a GOP-favorable congressional map and keeping the 2020-census districts in place for November 2026. The ruling resolves a state constitutional question over whether the referendum power reaches redistricting and sets up a likely U.S. Supreme Court appeal by Missouri's attorney general. Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-gop-map-referendum --- This page is a machine-readable summary. Sentiment measures the directional read of each development for this entity, not the tone of the reporting; impact weights consequence, not syndication reach. 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