Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake

Last month, a federal court in Texas ruled that a Republican gerrymander, expected to give the GOP five extra seats in the US House, must be struck down because of incompetent lawyering by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.

In August, at Trump’s urging, Texas Republicans redrew their state’s congressional maps to make them much more friendly to the GOP. This led Democrats to push for retaliatory gerrymanders in blue states. California voters backed a ballot referendum allowing that state to redraw its maps to make them more Democratic, and Virginia may also redraw its maps once Democrats take full control of its government this winter.

These transparent attempts to rig congressional elections to benefit one party or the other are permissible largely because of the Republican ju