from the iokwyar dept Last December, Justice Alito told Texans they had to vote under an unconstitutional gerrymander because changing maps in December would deprive them of “certainty” before the 2026 midterms. Yesterday, with voting already underway in Louisiana, he rushed the certified copy of the Calais ruling out the door so Southern states can hurry up and redistrict before that very same election. It seems like a hypocrisy worth pointing out, even as Alito and the MAGA faithful will studiously look the other way. I covered some of this on Friday after the Calais ruling first came out, but with Justice Samuel Alito rushing the certified copy of the decision to help speed up the redistricting of Southern states to wipe out Democratic districts, I feel like we need to make this point even clearer. To briefly backtrack, in November, a Trump-appointed judge wrote an incredibly detailed ruling on why Texas’ attempt to gerrymander away Democratic districts was clearly unconstitutional .…