U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith issued a scathing, lengthy dissent aimed at a district judge on a panel that struck down Texas’s new congressional map, likely providing ammunition for the state’s forthcoming appeal to the Supreme Court .

Smith accused U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown of “embarking on a results-oriented crusade against the Texas Legislature” in the majority opinion halting the use of the state’s recently passed congressional map, ripping that decision and laying out his issues with Brown’s conduct. Smith issued his dissent one day after the majority on the three-judge panel released its ruling. In it, he argued the winners of the majority’s ruling are George Soros and Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom , while the losers are the people of Texas and the rule

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