STLPR reports:

President Donald Trump wants Missouri to join in on a mid-decade redistricting extravaganza ahead of the midterm elections, according to a Missouri GOP congressman.

But if Missouri Republicans do target Missouri’s Kansas City-based 5th District at the behest of Trump, they’d not only be abandoning their own impassioned arguments from just a couple of years ago – but possibly plunging the state into judicial limbo.

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Congressman Eric Burlison told St. Louis Public Radio on Thursday that he heard directly from the White House that the president wants the GOP-controlled Missouri legislature to revamp its map to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City to win re-election.

“I literally just got off the phone with the White House – and they do want that,” said Burlison, R-Greene County. “And this is the first that I’ve heard it directly from them, because before that I heard it through rumors – through other people.”