Steve Vladeck on the latest development in this Missouri saga:

‘It is exceedingly difficult to see how anything the Eighth Circuit said in its ruling tonight will alter [the Supreme Court’s earlier] calculus in the new map’s favor; if anything, the passage of time (and the distribution of ballots) only further augurs in favor of a stay—and of preserving the Missouri Supreme Court’s directive to use the 2022 map this November. …

‘I hope my relative confidence about how this ends doesn’t obscure how ridiculous the Eighth Circuit’s ruling is. It’s procedurally bonkers; it’s substantively dangerous; and it’s a far more serious instance of a lower court acting in direct tension with the Supreme Court’s directive than any of Justice Gorsuch’s three examples of “defiance” in his NIH concurrence last August.’