A federal judge in Texas responded to the court’s decision to scrap the state’s redrawn map with a jaw-dropping dissent on Wednesday in which he lobbed dozens of insults at his colleague and ...

“There’s the old joke: What’s the difference between God and a federal district judge?" Judge Jerry Smith wrote. "Answer: God doesn’t think he’s a federal judge.” In an unusually scathing dissent, ...

One day after a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, the dissenting judge ...

A federal judge on Wednesday issued an extraordinary broadside against his two colleagues over their decision to publish their opinion in a major redistricting case in Texas before he had a chance to ...

A federal judge has issued a blistering dissent after two other judges on the same panel blocked Texas' congressional redistricting map from taking effect next year. The case has major ramifications ...

One judge on the three-judge panel dissented, calling the majority decision "judicial activism." The dissenting judge argued that the map targeted Democrats for political gain, not minority ...