JEFFERSON CITY — Class is back in session at the Missouri State Capitol, but it's for a lesson the members of one of the parties never asked for, and some members of the other party have waited a long time to finish.

The state House of Representatives began the second special session of the year Wednesday afternoon — this one focused on plans to gerrymander Missouri's congressional map to favor Republicans, and to allow rural voters a disproportionate say in whether the state adopts amendments to the constitution.

Gov. Mike Kehoe called lawmakers back last Friday to pass a new congressional map that would carve up the Kansas City area and extend the districts that encompass it out into rural, more conservative-leaning areas.

Republicans already hold six of Missouri's eight congress

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