Get yourself a man who loves you as much as Justice Samuel Alito loves partisan gerrymandering.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais , which was handed down on Wednesday, was expected to deal a mortal blow to a longstanding federal rule that guarantees Black and Latino voters a minimum level of representation in some states, and Alito’s majority opinion in Callais unquestionably deals such a blow.

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But Alito, whose opinion was joined only by the Court’s Republicans, also goes much further.…