Listen to the full interview with Missourinet’s Alisa Nelson and attorney Chuck Hatfield. https://cdn.missourinet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/8-5-AN-Hatfield-Redistricting.mp3

Missouri Republicans hold six Congressional seats, but President Donald Trump wants more. He is reportedly pushing the Show Me State to change its Congressional districts so that Democrats lose a seat in 2026.

Chuck Hatfield, an attorney for many government-related legal matters, told Missourinet that the state Constitution prohibits mid-cycle redistricting.

“Our Constitution says that congressional redistricting shall be done when the Census data is released, and it was done when the census data was released,” said Hatfield. “The way I read our Constitution, and there’s some case law that supports this, it ca

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