At this point, the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court should just show up for work wearing aprons and change-makers, telling the rubes who come expecting justice to step right up and try their luck, which inevitably will be bad. Late Thursday, this carny midway claimed another sucker. From The New York Times :

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for Texas lawmakers to use newly redrawn congressional maps favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. The decision overturns, at least for now, a lower-court ruling that the new maps were likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. That decision had blocked lawmakers from using the maps in the midterm elections.

And now, some classic NYT understatement.

The ruling also adds to the grow

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