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A federal court struck down Texas’ new gerrymander on Tuesday, in an extraordinary rebuke to Republicans who sought to hand the GOP five additional seats in the House of Representatives. The 160-page ruling —authored by Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a conservative Donald Trump nominee—scorched the scheme as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, declaring that the Legislature “intentionally drew district lines” to discriminate against Black and Hispanic Texans.

Remarkably, Brown found that it was Trump’s own Department of Justice that had injected race into the plot as part of its “hamfisted” effort to cook up a pretext for new maps. And he laid out a gobsmacking amo

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