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FBaggins

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 08:59 PM

Oct 1

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 1 #1

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