Current Law
The Missouri Constitution does not currently place any limitation on Missourians’ right to challenge unfair maps in court.

Any Missourian can bring a challenge to unfair maps and can do so in a court where the person lives.
Proposed Changes
Amendment 3 substantially narrows the ways that citizens will be able to bring lawsuits against bad maps.

Notably, plaintiffs will only be allowed to challenge the map for the district where they reside, rather than the map as a whole, and only if they can show a differently drawn district would solve the problem. And even if a court agrees with challengers, the amendment seeks to limit how much a court would be able to adjust a map to bring it into compliance with the law.

The amendment also require that citizens bring suit in Cole County.