Appeals from three-judge district court panels in congressional redistricting cases go DIRECTLY to SCOTUS, which is **REQUIRED BY LAW to hear the case.** This has been a major point of confusion in the Texas case, and will likely come up again soon in CA and NC.

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Important: It's been a week, & Utah Republicans have not filed an appeal on the judge's decision to toss the map they tried adopting, & choose one submitted by the plaintiffs. They're signaling they're not going to do so, at least not pre-2026:

https://t.co/bzvu2h7bNB

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Holy smokes. From my former judge, Jerry Smith.

I expect this dissent to be a prominent feature of Texas's application to the Supreme Court. Many of the Justices, especially Purcell-prone ones, will likely give this dissent and its nature a lot of weight when considering a stay. Especially coming from a well respected and

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricted the feds' use of force in Chicago. The appeals court says her order is "overbroad" but warns "do not overread today's order."

Judge Smith of the 5th Circuit has issued the most shocking dissent I've ever read in the Texas redistricting case. He accuses Judge Brown and the majority of judicial misconduct. He also chides them for applying incorrect legal standards, misapplying others, crediting bad

This is silly. If you fly as much as members of Congress do you're just going to get upgraded free a lot on a route to Des Moines

Two lawyers with an office near the Eisenhower building sued alleging irreparable harm if President Trump can proceed and "clean, repoint, and repaint" the building. Over time the building will get dirty again. It can always be repainted. How could this possibly justify relief?

Justice Scalia’s 10th Amendment jurisprudence vindicated once again. You can’t commandeer state law enforcement officers to enforce Federal law! Dual sovereignty, baby.

I'll repeat: Dems gerrymander maps to their hearts content when they have control and judges say "Hey, it's within their power, no problem." GOP gerrymanders maps when they have control and judges say "THE HORROR! THE HORROR! STRUCK DOWN!"

Hochul started this all with her multimandering. Newsom just used Texas as an excuse. It was always going to happen. Believing that Dems have any principles is silly.

Texas Republicans should be drawing a new, race-blind gerrymander that is ready to pass in 48 hours should the Supreme Court deny a stay in this case. Nothing in the court's order today prevents them from doing so.

The cave by weak Ohio Republicans on the new map is so much more infuriating now than it was before, which is saying something. And those were HIGH LEVEL state officials, not random floor senators.

I feel like people miss the fact that the old California commission-drawn map was STILL a functional partisan gerrymander, so much so that CA Dems left this district the same in the new map.

We agreed to it in Virginia and California and they promptly discarded independent redistricting right after Trump became president again, even though it was already tilted heavily in the Dems favor. You libs still can't admit to yourselves that your dear Democrats are shameless

Governor Mike Braun is contemplating compelling the Indiana Senate to vote on a new congressional map.

(It does)