Midterm Election

DISSENT: Judge Brown’s ‘Fictional’ Activism Blocked Trump-Texas Redistricting, Gave Soros Short-Lived Victory

Federal Judge Jerry Edwin Smith delivered a blistering dissent against fellow jurist Jeffrey Vincent Brown, condemning Brown’s 160‑page injunction blocking Texas’s 2025 redistricting map as “a Nobel Prize for Fiction” and “the most outrageous conduct” he has seen in nearly four decades on the bench. Smith’s rebuke came as the Supreme Court stepped in with an administrative stay, halting Brown’s ruling that found Texas racially gerrymandered its new congressional districts.

DISSENT: Judge Brown’s 'Fictional' Activism Blocked Trump -Texas Redistricting, Gave Sor