Marc Elias: On behalf of Pennsylvania voter, tonight we filed a lawsuit to ensure fair and equal con

[FBaggins]

4. You must not be familiar with how the game is played

Attorneys frequently file things that waste the court's time. That doesn't mean that they aren't good attorneys... just that they have some other motivation than what their filing asks for.

He likely considers it worth his time because it gets the issue into the news. The short period of time (minutes?) between the release of the census data and the filing makes it clear that managing the news cycle is his goal (as well as making clear that he drafted it long before the census data was actually released).

The state supreme court drafted the existing maps about three years ago. It's pretty ridiculous to charge the state with violating the constitution mere seconds after the census tells them that they'll have to redraw the lines... particularly when the state has a legally defined process requiring them to be redrawn.

As another quick example - one of his requests is to enjoin the state from using the existing maps. How would that even be possible when the state will now only have 17 seats instead of 18?