Circuit Court Judge Jerry Smith wrote a fiery 104-page dissent attacking colleague Judge Jeffrey Brown's decision to block Texas redistricting maps.

A federal judge issued a scathing dissent of a ruling tossing Texas's new congressional map as the battle moves to the Supreme Court.

Judge Jerry E. Smith accused his two colleagues who issued the injunction of acting in bad faith, issuing a decision rife with errors, falsehoods, and judicial activism.

Jerry Smith, a judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, delivered that admonition before launching into an invective-laden, unusually personal excoriation of a legal decision Tuesday throwing out congressional boundaries Texas just redrew at the urging of President Donald Trump.

A federal judge blasted Tuesday’s preliminary injunction issued by a federal panel blocking Texas’ revised congressional maps, writing in his dissent that

PITTSFIELD — If it wasn’t for his commanding officer aboard a U.S. Navy submarine, Jerry Smith may never have found his passion for scuba diving. Although Smith was a diving gear technician during his time in the Navy from 1957 to 1963, he had never ...