The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new, absurdly messy gerrymandering case

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a bizarre dispute between two different federal courts about how to fix Louisiana’s racially gerrymandered congressional maps. Under existing law, one of these courts was clearly correct and the other clearly erred. But this Supreme Court is often hostile to voting rights plaintiffs, so there is some risk that the justices could change the law...