The court’s conservative majority – Justices Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett – agreed that a lower court did not have the authority to invalidate the map as a racial gerrymander. The court’s liberals – Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jacks0n – voted against the revival.
“The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections,” the unsigned ruling reads.
The majority opinion in the three-judge panel that temporarily blocked the redistricting plan was written by District Court Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown. Fellow Judge Jerry Edwin Smith blasted Brown’s ruling, saying it deserved the “Nobel Prize for Fiction,” Breitbart Texas legal analyst Lana Shadwick reported. Smith called Brown’s ruling the “most outrageous conduct” he has seen in nearly four decades of service on the court.
Smith continued, writing, “What’s the difference between God and a federal district judge? Answer: God doesn’t think he’s a federal judge. … Only this time, it isn’t funny.”
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