U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver vowed Friday to fight Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps. He said the move to change the boundaries of his Kansas City-based district would make it easier for a Republican to win the seat.

We're going to fight this all the way," Cleaver said. "It's probably going to end up in the Supreme Court."

Cleaver, a Democrat who represents most of Jackson County and part of Clay County, said the proposed changes would divide Kansas City.

It will render people in Kansas City essentially silent and powerless, Cleaver said. "The reason Im saying this is Kansas City is roughly 70-something percent Democratic. If you tear Kansas City apart put one portion of the Kansas City area in one district, the other in another the chances are they have no representation.

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