The radical Texas lawsuit seeking to disenfranchise 127,000 voters, explained

In a normal world, where judges respect both the sanctity of elections and the rule of law, Hotze v. Hollins would be laughed out of court.

But we live in a world with a 6-3 Republican Supreme Court that appears eager to rewrite longstanding rules that have governed American elections for at least a century. And the Hotze case itself will be heard by Judge Andrew Hanen — as my colleague Matt Yglesias wrote over the weekend, Hanen “is one of the most right-wing and incautious figures in the entire...