“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 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 ...
When a federal court Tuesday dropped its bombshell 160-page decision invalidating Texas Republicans' mid-decade redistricting effort as blatant racial gerrymandering, there was one big missing piece ...