Attorney General Catherine HanawayAttorney General Catherine Hanaway warns the unprecedented ruling has plunged Missouri into a “full-fledged constitutional crisis” and threatens to disenfranchise voters statewide.Late Thursday, Hanaway announced her office has officially filed for a stay at the Supreme Court of Missouri, a required first punch before an emergency sprint to the U.S. Supreme Court, after the state’s highest court did something no American court has ever done: rip up a congressional map after voters already chose nominees in a primary and before the general election.As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court tossed the Missouri FIRST Map, the 7-1 congressional plan Republican lawmakers passed last year to give the Show-Me State an additional MAGA seat and end the Kansas City gerrymander that has protected Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.The court ordered Missourians back onto the old 2022 lines for the Nov. 3 general election and put the new map itself on the November ballot.Missouri already held its August primary under the new map. Candidates won. Voters picked their nominees. Campaigns spent months knocking doors in districts that a handful of judges in Jefferson City just declared never existed.Now those same voters are being told the general election will be run on a different map.Hanaway went straight at it on X:“A republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin FranklinNever before in American history has a court overturned a congressional map after a primary and before a general election. This unprecedented decision clearly violates federal law and has thrust our state into a full‑fledged constitutional crisis.Our office will move immediately to seek relief from SCOTUS. We are confident that the federal courts will not allow every Missouri voter to be disenfranchised—which is what today’s decision does.Hours later came the update:UPDATE: We’ve officially filed for a stay at SCOMO in this unprecedented case, a necessary step before our emergency appeal to SCOTUS.UPDATE: We’ve officially filed for a stay at SCOMO in this unprecedented case, a necessary step before our emergency appeal to SCOTUS. https://t.co/5rCT8INtTd— Attorney General Catherine L. Hanaway (@AGCHanaway) September 4, 2026Last September, we reported that the Republican-controlled Missouri House OVERWHELMINGLY passed the new map, 90-65, slashing Democrats down to a single U.S. House seat. It wasn’t close.The plan carved up Cleaver’s Kansas City stronghold and spread those voters into neighboring Republican districts. President Trump praised Missouri’s legislators and called the map “much fairer, and improved.”Governor Mike Kehoe signed it. Hanaway’s office then spent a year beating back left-wing lawsuits in Jackson County and Cole County arguing the map was compact, constitutional, and the job of the elected legislature, not dark-money referendum mills.Thursday’s unanimous opinion from Chief Judge Ginger Gooch flipped the script. The court said the referendum petition from People Not Politicians was “legal, sufficient, and timely,” that Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was wrong to keep it off the ballot, and that the 2025 map “is not the law and has never been the law.” Election officials were enjoined from using it in November unless voters first approve it.Hoskins called it a constitutional crisis. Hanaway called it a constitutional crisis. President Trump called it a “Dark Day for ‘Justice’ in Missouri,” said the ruling was “horrible, ridiculous, and unConstitutional,” and demanded the state be allowed to use the same map that was in force at the primary.The post UPDATE: Missouri AG Files Emergency Stay at State Supreme Court After ‘Wacky’ Ruling Tosses GOP Map AFTER the Primary appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.