密苏里州参议院通过旨在获得共和党众议院席位的重新划区计划

"...Missouri Republicans handed President Donald Trump a political victory Friday..."

"...asserting on his social media site earlier this week that the Senate "must pass this Map now, AS IS, to deliver a gigantic Victory for Republicans."..."

"...Cleaver, who was Kansas City’s first Black mayor, has served in Congress for over 20 years...."

"...Cleaver has said he plans to challenge the new map in court and seek reelection in 2026, regardless of the shape of his district...."

"...Cleaver’s revised Kansas City district would stretch from near the city’s St. James United Methodist Church — which Cleaver once led — 180 miles (290 kilometers) southeast to include another United Methodist church in rural Vienna...."

"...In the neighborhood around Cleaver’s hometown church, where his son is now pastor, about 60% of the residents are Black or a mix of Black and another race, according to U.S. Census Bureau data...."

"...By contrast, the area around Vienna has just 11 Black residents out of nearly 2,500 people...."

"...Kansas City resident Roger C. Williams Jr., a 79-year-old former middle-school principal, said the effort to reshape congressional districts reminds him of the discrimination he witnessed against Black residents while growing up in Arkansas...."

"..."What Republicans are doing now in the state of Missouri is they’re taking me back to a time when I, or people that looked like me, would not have an opportunity, because they wouldn’t have a voice," he said...."

"...Republican lawmakers said little during Senate debate...."

"...But sponsoring state Rep. Dirk Deaton, a Republican, has said the new congressional map splits fewer overall counties and municipalities into multiple districts than the current one...."

"..."It is a better map for the state of Missouri," Deaton told a Senate committee Thursday...."

"..."By really every metric I look at, I feel that way."..."