A ruling by a Donald Trump-appointed judge to toss a Texas redistricting plan designed to help the GOP hold onto the House led an MS NOW host to call out Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ for providing shoddy advice.
In ruling against the GOP-led initiative, U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote, “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”
That led “Morning Joe“ co-host Joe Scarborough to observe, “But in the redistricting wars, Texas was the reason California moved forward. Texas got five, California got five. Now, because D.O.J. lawyers misread the law, a judge is saying — I think it was a Trump judge is saying— we're going to throw this out.”
“And they said the drafting of it, it was like 100 monkeys with 100 crayons, like we're drafting letters that, I mean, they even, Republicans that were on the DOJ side were saying, this is incomprehensible, it's incompetent. And this could cost Republicans five seats.”
“I’ll just read one line from the judge's opinion,” co-host Jonathan Lemire added. “It says, ‘Challenging to unpack all of the factual, legal and typographical errors in that DOJ missive.’ Just saying this is ridiculous. This is not based on anything that we can support that would stand up in court.”