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FBaggins

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Reply to ancianita (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 07:59 PM

Oct 2025

One Obama appointee, one Trump judge… and one left over from Reagan. Any appeal goes straight to SCOTUS.

LULAC v. Abbott was assigned to U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama, a Barack Obama appointee in El Paso; U.S. District Judge Jeff Brown, a Trump appointee in Galveston; and Judge Jerry Smith, who was appointed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan. All proceedings have taken place in El Paso.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/29/texas-redistricting-congressional-map-lawsuit-injunction-hearing/

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If it's the 5th Circuit, Abbott and TX will get their wish. It's an ultra-conservative and right-wing activist court. ancianita Oct 2025 #1

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