Trump slams Supreme Court for blocking Missouri’s GOP-favored map for third time

President Trump went after the Supreme Court on Sunday for blocking a Missouri congressional map favoring Republicans.

“The Supreme Court of the United States will just not let Missouri have an Election Victory. They continuously, three times now, overrule Judges who came to the correct decisions,” Trump said in a Sunday morning Truth Social post.

“Thank you to the Governor, and all of the Great People of Missouri, who are fighting so hard for Fairness and Election Security,” the president added. “Such tremendous Spirit and Love of our Country. I won Missouri BIG, all three times, and I couldn’t be more proud of doing so.”

On Friday, the Supreme Court again stopped a directive for Missouri Republicans to use their favored congressional map, and officials now have to go back to an older map for the upcoming election.

The court’s ruling was damaging for Republicans, who had pushed for a more favorable 7-1 House map in time for this year’s midterms, rather than an older 6-2 map.

Republicans passed the 7-1 congressional map last year and used it for primaries last month. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling now requires Missouri to use different congressional lines for the general election.

The legal battle over the congressional map in the Show Me State came back to the high court for a third time late Tuesday. The Supreme Court had ruled against the Republicans twice before, but those decisions were technically interim.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday had issued a final ruling backing the Republicans, saying it was unconstitutional to make officials go back to the old map because they already had the primaries with the new boundaries.

The Hill has reached out to the Supreme Court for comment.