“Appeals Court Sides With Missouri Republicans on Redrawn House Map; The order may have little impact because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked the congressional districts that favor Republicans”: Mitch Smith of The New York Times has this report.

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Appeals court revives GOP gerrymander in Missouri that Supreme Court killed off twice; The 8th Circuit on Monday blocked a ruling from the state’s highest court that sharply rebuked the Republican secretary of state.”

Alexandra Samuels of Bloomberg Law reports that “Eighth Circuit Rules for Missouri’s GOP-Favored Election Map.”

And at his “One First” Substack site, Steve Vladeck has a post titled “252. The Eighth Circuit’s Missouri Redistricting Mishegas: The Eighth Circuit’s attempt to put Missouri’s 2025 congressional map back into effect will fail; It’s also yet another example of the mischief the Supreme Court’s shadow docket behavior can beget.”

You can access today’s decision of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“Judicial Notice (09.20.26): Problematic Progressive Prosecutors; Benchslaps for a high-profile district attorney, a Supreme smackdown of the Trump administration, and a Gibson Dunn raid on Paul Weiss’s litigation practice.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Tom Goldstein, poker and the Supreme Court: A guide to the Supreme Court lawyer, his high-stakes poker life and Bradley Hope’s series, The Tell.” The Foundry is publishing a series of lengthy posts written by Bradley Hope about this matter, along with this guide.

Chapters 1 and 2 appear under the heading “The Tell: In public, he was the country’s top Supreme Court litigator; In private, he won close to $100 million from opponents at the highest-stakes poker games in the world; His double life cost him everything.”

And Chapters 3 and 4 appear under the heading “The Tell: Chapters 3 and 4; Tom Goldstein wanted a seat in poker’s richest private games; His legal work opened the door; Then he recruited a team of professionals to help him beat the men on the other side of the table.”

“Former Trump, DOJ Lawyer Blasts Conduct of Goldstein Prosecutors”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can access here and here the amicus briefs filed last Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.