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.

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

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 penned a heated dissent after this week's ruling that blocked Texas' redistricting effort, accusing the judge who wrote the majority opinion of "outrageous conduct" and "cherry-picking of the highest order.

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 ...