Federal Judge Who Melted Down in Texas Redistricting Dissent Once Wrote Fake Majority Opinion Bashed as Barbaric Fanfiction'

"A federal judge who issued a scathing dissent in a Texas redistricting case that attacked the majority for outrageous judicial conduct and judicial activism is no stranger to dramatic judicial antics, including crafting a fake majority opinion for one of his dissents. Judge Jerry E. Smith with the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is a 79-year-old Texas native who received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University."

"Smith was the dissenting opinion in a 2-1 decision issued on Tuesday in which the majority blocked Texas's efforts to redraw its congressional maps, finding that there was substantial evidence the new district lines were racially gerrymandered, and ordering the state to return to its 2021 map. Normally, states draw their electoral maps every decade after new Census data is released, but in the wake of President Donald Trump's reelection and the critically important 2026 midterms,"

Judge Jerry E. Smith is a 79-year-old Texas native and Yale alumnus who was nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. Smith authored a scathing dissent in a 2-1 Fifth Circuit redistricting decision in which the majority blocked Texas's attempt to redraw congressional maps, finding substantial evidence of racial gerrymandering and ordering a return to the 2021 maps. The majority's 160-page opinion was written by Judge Jeffrey V. Brown and joined by Senior Judge David C. Guaderrama. The opinion cited a Department of Justice letter and public comments by Governor Greg Abbott and granted a preliminary injunction against the 2025 map.

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