Anti-gerrymandering protesters outside of the Supreme Court. | Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images 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 ballo...

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