Last summer, after the Supreme Court appeared to brush aside a fringe theory that would have given gerrymandered GOP legislatures unfettered power over election procedures, progressive activists at Common Cause hailed a “historic pro-democracy decision. ” MSNBC enthused that “democracy scores a win at the high court.” Even Mother Jones , The Washington Post , and Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket joined the hallelujah chorus. John Roberts is not your friend. It shouldn’t need repeating after a