In the most recent urgent issue related to President Donald Trump's nationwide redistricting battle to reach the Supreme Court, Missouri officials requested the court on Friday to reinstall a congressional plan that includes an extra seat for the Republican Party.

The state's highest court barred that map for the November midterm election one day prior to the emergency appeal.

In an urgent petition, the state told the Supreme Court that "a federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri" and threatened "unprecedented chaos" if the justices refused to step in.

Relying in part on a federal statute that sets deadlines for delivering military and foreign ballots, the state requested that the Supreme Court decide the dispute by September 14.

Republican Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said the Supreme Court, "Missouri cannot run a timely, lawful federal election absent a stay." "This court has long acknowledged that last-minute judicial changes have the potential to disrupt and disrupt federal elections."

The plaintiffs who sued over the map were told by the court to reply by Monday at noon.

Last month's primary election in Missouri used the state's new map, which was passed last year. However, Missouri officials incorrectly rejected a petition with over 300,000 signatures to allow the state's voters to decide on the plan through a referendum before to its implementation, according to a ruling made by the state's highest court on Thursday nite.

To give Republicans an advantage in this year's midterm elections, GOP-led states have started an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting at Trump's request. In an effort to counteract that advantage, some Democratic states have responded by redrawing their own borders.

Republicans have often profited the most from that endeavor.

Additionally, the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court has had a big impact, possibly influencing how the midterms turn out. Several Republican states in the South underwent new redistricting as a result of the court's historic ruling earlier this year that eliminated a large portion of the Voting Rights Act. In the meantime, the court permitted California to use a map that favors Democrats and allowed Texas to use a plan that favors Republicans.

A plea from Virginia officials to enact a congressional map that would have favored Democrats was denied by the court in May.

Late Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Republican-friendly plan. Five of the seven judges on the court were nominated by Republican governors.

In doing so, the judges chastised Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins for delaying the process and clearly rejected the state's claims that it was too late to alter the map.

Judge Ginger Gooch observed, "These arguments are particularly misplaced given that the secretary's delay created the confusion, expense, and practical difficulties of which he complains."

Hoskins waited until August 4, the last day, which also happened to be the day of the state primary, to declare that, in his opinion, the state constitution's right for voters to weigh in on legislation does not apply to redistricting measures, despite the fact that opponents of the new map had submitted their petition in December.

Gooch stated in her judgment that Hoskins might have made that decision as early as last year, which would have allowed the process to proceed quicker, but the court rejected that argument. In a social media post on Thursday, Trump attacked the state court's decision, claiming that it had "ridiculously ruled in favor of changing the maps back to what they were a long time ago."

The state's plan aims to disperse Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver's 5th Congressional District, which is based in Kansas City, among rural and Republican-leaning areas of the state.