Jurisprudence By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Mark Joseph Stern ? May 12, 2026 2:05 PM Alito clearly lied in Callais to conceal his opinion’s sweeping assault on precedent. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Shawn Thew/Pool/Getty Images and Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images. Sign up for  Executive Dysfunction , a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story each week about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back. You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. The Supreme Court made its attack on the Voting Rights Act even worse on Monday through a shadow docket order that significantly expands the invitation to gerrymander racial minorities out of power that the court extended just 12 days earlier in Louisiana v. Callais .…