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Thomas siding with the RAT judges in a 5-4 decision involving a partisan RAT gerrymandering is indeed bizarre. I'd be curious to read his reasoning on the case. After the death of Scalia, Thomas is now most likely the most conservative member of the court and votes the right way 95% of the time. This is probably one of the 5% of the times he didn't.

I think another FReeper nailed it in predicting you're probably going to see the Roberts court make a lot of 5-4 decisions that hand a victory with the RATs, with Roberts, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh being the "lone GOP dissenter" in various cases that rotate to the bloc of 4 commies as needed.