{"id":58577,"date":"2025-11-21T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:07:09","slug":"texas-judge-slams-federal-court-for-blocking-state-from-using-redrawn-voting-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/58577\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas judge slams federal court for blocking state from using redrawn voting maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNDD) \u2014 A judge in Texas<\/a> criticized a court\u2019s decision to block Texas from using its new congressional map for the upcoming 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n

“This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed,” Judge Jerry Smith who is on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, said in a dissent on Wednesday, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said in his dissent that the people of Texas and the Rule of Law were the losers in this ruling.<\/p>\n

“The main winners from Judge Brown\u2019s opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom,” he said. “The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown ordered Texas to use maps that were previously used by the Texas Legislature in 2021 for the 2026 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe map ultimately passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor \u2014 the 2025 Map \u2014 achieved all but one of the racial objectives that DOJ demanded,\u201d Brown wrote for the panel majority.<\/p>\n

The decision was made 2-1.<\/p>\n

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,\u201d the ruling reads. \u201cTo be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Smith accused Judge Brown of engaging in \u201cjudicial tinkering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNDD) \u2014 A judge in Texas criticized a court\u2019s decision to block Texas from using its new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24352,132,134,133,3480,31575,31041,2830,27,31574,31573],"class_list":["post-58577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-2026-midterms","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-gerrymandering","tag-judge-jerry-smith","tag-judicial-activism","tag-redistricting","tag-texas","tag-u-s-court-of-appeals","tag-voting-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}