Let’s pretend the Supreme Court had gone the distance on the Wisconsin case, smiling on the plaintiffs’ proffered metric to measure partisan cheating. That wouldn’t stop the Madigans of the world from gaming the legislative maps. It would simply create a new set of obstacles. Politicians would test them, citizens would sue. Keep in mind that we’re two years away from the 2020 census and still tied up in court over maps that are based on the 2010 census.