Alito’s move allowing Texas officials to continue to prepare for primary elections under the new map came just after the state asked the Supreme Court for an urgent ruling.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily restored a controversial Trump-backed Texas redistricting plan that could grant Republicans an extra five seats in the House of Representatives.

"The more likely scenarios would all have Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch voting to strike down the IEEPA tariffs or to curtail them, in our view."

As Mississippi explained in its brief seeking Supreme Court review: Oldham’s contortionist opinion reaching a contrary result is especially rich coming from a judge purporting to apply textualism—looking at the meaning of the text as understood by an ordinary English reader at the time Congress passed the statute.