I had thought that the partisan gerrymandering cases were going to end with a whimper rather than a bang, and that’s exactly what happened.
With thoughts that Justice Thomas or Alito likely have the opinion in the Texas redistricting cases (now much more likely Alito than Thomas), I had initially thought that was bad news for the plaintiffs.
But it could well be that this case too ends not with a major decision, but with a punt (as in Benisek) on the standards for issuing injunctions.
Here’s my earlier post, from after the Texas oral argument: