A panel of three federal judges in Texas, including a Trump appointee, just blocked Texas Republicans

from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 26, ruling that it was an illegal,

racially gerrymandered map, and ordering Texas to revert to its 2021 map as Trump's

redistricting power grab collapses. The author of this massive opinion is a federal judge named

Judge Jeffrey Brown writing for the majority here, this three judge panel.

It's a three judge panel because that's a type of panel that hears challenges to gerrymandering

and challenges under the Voting Rights Act. And Judge Jeffrey Brown, appointed by Donald Trump in

2019, ruled that Trump and Governor Abbott's

efforts to gerrymander, Texas to pick up five congressional seats is unlawful.

It was a powerful opinion.

What you need to note as well, this has no impact on California's prop 50 mid-decade redistricting so as it stands

right now California based on the popular referendum of the people that was not an

unlawfully racially gerrymandered proposition we'll get to pick up five congressional seats.

And the Texas gerrymandered map has been deemed to be unlawful and racist.

And it was a Trump judge who drafted the opinion.

So Donald Trump can't be like, oh, wacko liberal judge.

You appointed this guy, Donald Donald in 2019, Judge Jeffrey Brown.

I want to go through with you what Judge Jeffrey Brown?

The Trump appointed judge in Texas wrote when he struck down the Governor Abbott

Donald Trump mid-decade gerrymander in Texas.

So the judge starts off by quoting Chief Justice John Roberts himself, a right-wing chief

judge on the United States Supreme Court because clearly this Trump appointed judge was basically

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