On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Missouri's Republican attorney general, thereby upholding the injunction issued by the state's highest court.
美国最高法院周二驳回了密苏里州共和党总检察长的上诉,从而维持了该州最高法院的禁令。
However, immediately thereafter, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark issued a temporary restraining order, barring Missouri from adopting any redistricting plan other than the one backed by the Republicans.
然而,紧接着,美国地区法官斯蒂芬·克拉克却颁布了一项临时限制令,禁止密苏里州采用除共和党支持的新选区划分方案之外的任何其他选区。
The new districts were already in use during the August primary, and the winners have been officially certified by election officials.
新选区已于八月初选阶段投入使用,获胜者亦已获选举官员正式认证。
Nevertheless, the question of which districting plan will govern the November general election remains unresolved to this day.
然而,十一月大选将依据何种选区划分方案进行,这一议题至今仍悬而未决。
The Republican state attorney general, Catherine Hanaway, who lodged the appeal, contended that redrawing electoral districts between the primary and general elections would inevitably infringe upon voters' fundamental rights.
提起上诉的共和党州总检察长凯瑟琳·哈纳威辩称,在初选与普选之间重新划分选区,势必侵犯选民的基本权利。
She further asserted that such a move would also precipitate chaos in the electoral process.
她继而指出,此举亦将引发选举秩序的混乱。
However, under pressure from Trump, Missouri's Governor Mike Kehoe convened a special session of the legislature last year, aiming to redraw congressional district boundaries on the eve of the midterm elections to benefit his own party.
然而,在特朗普的施压之下,密苏里州州长迈克·基霍于去年召集立法机构召开特别会议,意图在中期选举前夕重新划分国会选区边界,以谋取本党利益。
The revised redistricting plan targets the Fifth Congressional District, which has long been held by Emanuel Cleaver, a senior Democratic congressman from Kansas City.
修订后的选区划分方案针对第五国会选区,该选区长期由堪萨斯城的资深民主党众议员伊曼纽尔·克利弗把持。
This plan carves out portions of Kansas City into two adjacent Republican-controlled districts, while simultaneously extending the remainder of Cleaver's district eastward, deep into the Republican heartland of rural areas.
此方案将堪萨斯城的部分区域划入邻近两个由共和党控制的选区,同时将克利弗所在选区的剩余部分向东延伸,深入农村地区的共和党腹地。
Cleaver won the Democratic primary without any contest, facing no opposition whatsoever.
克利弗在民主党初选中毫无悬念地胜出,未遇任何对手。
Meanwhile, State Senator Rick Brattin successfully secured the Republican primary nomination in the redrawn district.
与此同时,州参议员里克·布拉廷则在重新划分的选区中,成功赢得了共和党初选的提名。
On primary day, Republican Secretary of State Danny Hoskins rejected a petition bearing thousands of signatures, which sought to force a statewide referendum on the redistricting plan in November.
在初选当日,共和党籍州务卿丹尼·霍斯金斯驳回了载有数千人签名的请愿书,该请愿旨在推动就该选区划分方案于十一月举行全民公投。
Hoskins insisted that the Missouri Constitution provided no legal basis for a referendum on congressional district boundaries.
霍斯金斯坚称,密苏里州宪法并未赋予对国会选区区划进行公投的法律依据。
The lower courts concurred, yet the state Supreme Court ultimately overturned Hoskins's ruling.
下级法院对此表示认同,然而州最高法院最终推翻了霍斯金斯的裁决。
The state's highest court ruled that the new districts had been retroactively frozen as of December, when the petition signatures were submitted, and thus had never formally taken effect as law.
该州最高法院裁定,新选区在十二月提交请愿签名时即被追溯性冻结,因而从未正式生效成为法律。
On Tuesday, Hoskins, acting on the state court's directive, placed the redistricting referendum on the November ballot as Proposition A.
霍斯金斯于周二遵照州法院指令,将重新划分选区的公投列为十一月投票中的提案A。
Missouri became the second Republican-dominated state, following Texas, to heed Trump's call from the previous year to redraw congressional districts, with several other states following suit.
密苏里州成为继得克萨斯州之后,第二个响应特朗普去年重新划分国会选区号召的共和党主导州,其他数州亦纷纷效仿。
Overall, Republicans had hoped to secure up to sixteen additional seats from the new House district maps enacted in eight states: Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama.
总体而言,共和党人曾寄望于在得克萨斯州、密苏里州、北卡罗来纳州、俄亥俄州、佛罗里达州、田纳西州、路易斯安那州及阿拉巴马州这八个州颁布的新众议院选区图中,最多斩获十六个额外席位。
The Democrats' counteroffensive, by contrast, met with repeated setbacks, as they believed they could gain at most six additional seats from the new redistricting in California and Utah.
民主党人的反击则屡遭挫败,他们自认为能从加利福尼亚州与犹他州的新选区划分中赢得至多六个额外席位。
It remains uncertain whether the redrawing of district boundaries will truly yield the results Republicans anticipate.
目前尚不明朗,重新划分选区是否真能如共和党人所预期的那样奏效。
Historically, the president's party tends to lose House seats in midterm elections, and Trump's flagging approval ratings may further impede Republican candidates.
从历史规律来看,总统所属政党往往会在中期选举中丧失众议院席位,而特朗普低迷的支持率则可能进一步为共和党候选人增添阻碍。