Yesterday, in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens (No. 25A608), a presumably 6-3 Court issued a short order allowing Texas’s new, and explicitly gerrymandered, congressional map to go into effect for the 2026 congressional election. In doing so, it stayed a split three-judge District Court’s decision that the new map violated the Constitution by taking the racial composition of voting districts into account in achieving the legislature’s partisan aims. Like many so-called Shadow Docket decisions—that is…