Dissenting judge torches colleague for ‘judicial misbehavior’ in blocking Texas map
The federal judge who dissented from the order striking down Texas’s new Republican-friendly House map torched his colleague in an explosive opinion published Wednesday, accusing him of “pernicious judicial misbehavior.” “In my 37 years on the federal bench, this is the most outrageous conduct by a judge that I have ever encountered in a case in which I have been involved,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith. His 104-page…
