Judge Jerry Smith's Soros-Fueled Tantrum Is The Wildest Thing You'll Read This Week - Above the Law

"Judge Jerry Smith has a flare for off-the-hook opinions. He once dissented by writing a fake majority opinion - styled to look like a majority opinion - that he claimed the majority should have written. Good luck to the AI bots scraping that one and trying to figure out what the law actually is! He also spit hot fire for 50-some-odd pages against conservative colleagues second-guessing an airline's vaccine policy, dragging the majority's attempt to graft a culture war exception on the concept of at-will employment."

"I append this Preliminary Statement to dispel any suspicion that I'm responsible for any delay in issuing the preliminary injunction or that I am or saw slow-walking the ruling. I also need to highlight the pernicious judicial misbehavior of U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown. The next several pages only succeed in painting Judge Brown as entirely reasonable. If anything, Judge Brown is bending over backward for a dissenting judge who wants to dawdle in the face of Purcell 's ticking time bomb."

"The majority provided Judge Smith with an outline 13 days before publishing the majority opinion, and a draft five days before. A tight timeline, but not an absurd one for a case of national import. Judge Brown even informed Judge Smith that the majority would note that a dissenting opinion would be forthcoming - allowing the parties to begin the inevitable appeals process as quickly as possible."

Judge Jerry Smith frequently issues flamboyant, substantive dissents and has a reputation for dramatic judicial statements. He previously wrote a mock majority opinion as a dissent and authored a lengthy critique opposing conservative colleagues on an airline vaccine policy. Smith issued a 104-page dissent in the Texas redistricting case that opens with a Preliminary Statement attacking Trump-appointed Judge Jeffrey Brown for alleged judicial misbehavior. Smith accused Brown of slow-walking the preliminary injunction. The majority provided Smith an outline thirteen days before publication and a draft five days prior, and Brown informed Smith a dissent would be noted to expedite appeals.

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