Missouri's confusing map dilemma

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An appeal for this decision has been filed. CBS News correspondent Ian Lee is in Kansas City, to talk more about this. So, Ian, explain the maps in question, and how this could cost either party a seat in Congress. Hi, Vlad. Yeah, the Show Me State, the people here want to see what's going to happen in November. Essentially, it breaks down to these two maps. The old map would give Republicans a safe six seats and Democrats two seats. But last year, the Missouri Congress, they came together, representatives, and redrew a new map that gave Republicans seven safe seats, and Democrats won. And how they did that was they carved up Kansas City. Basically, the fifth district, they made it larger. They redrew it to make it more comfortable for Republicans. And so that is really the crux of this debate right now, with Missouri Supreme Court saying that the old map needs to be used. The Supreme Court's not hearing this case, but then you had a federal judge on Tuesday say, nope, the new map has to be used because it's going to create havoc on Election Day.

And so what happens now, especially since the new map was used for the primaries? Yeah, Adriana, so we do have a lot of chaos right now. Election Day is still about eight weeks away, but the Supreme Court says that the old map needs to be used because there was a petition. Thousands of people wanted it to be put up to a state referendum. Let the people decide about this new map. And they said those signatures voided the Missouri's government's move to draw that new map. But this new federal judge says that the new map was used in the primaries, and they say moving forward, that could create chaos, who's going to be voting where, who's going to be voting for who, in the general election. So they say because of stability, that new map needs to be used. But that order was supposed to last for 14 days. It's going to go to the appeals court. Likely, that will be appealed. It could come back down to the US Supreme Court deciding. But ultimately, it does seem like there's a fight here between federal and states' rights.

Oh, boy. Ian, my head is spinning, but thank you. You did a great job breaking that down. We appreciate it.