Californias voted for their redistricting / gerrymandering.

Greg Abbott didn’t provide us with the same curtesy. Republicans decided on all our decisions. Texans aren’t allowed to vote for our representatives. Abbott and Tim O’Hare of Tarrant County make the calls on how Texans votes.

They determined injunctive (preliminary/interim) relief was not appropriate.

Injunctive relief was always intended to be a rare, interim, remedy - designed solely to prevent irreparable harm until the issue can be fully heard. Lower courts are granting them right and left - so it is not surprising that many are being reversed.

Injunctions are NOT decisions on the merits.

They may well ultimately side with Texas once the case works its way through the courts - but that is not what this decision is about.

That the point, never mind the niceties.

Witness the Supreme Court’s inexplicable decisions recently.

It is intended to be as rare thing, issued only when throwing money at problem after the fact can't solve the problem. Lower courts have been issuing injunctive relief at a rate we've never seen before. It is absolutely not surprising that many of these are being reversed by the higher courts.

But what I was referring to was calling a decision reversing an injunction a decision on the merits. They are two very different things, and the distinction between them is not just a legal nicety.