Donald “Donnie” Ray Smith passed away at his home in East Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 67. Donnie was born on Feb. 5, 1958, in Chattanooga. Don had a career in the automotive industry spanning over ...

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A federal district court judge in Texas released one of the strangest dissents in recent legal history on Wednesday, effectively accusing one of his colleagues of judicial misconduct and making a ...

“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, ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Wednesday, one day after a federal ...

U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith issued a scathing, lengthy dissent aimed at a district judge on a panel that struck down Texas’s new congressional map, likely providing ammunition for the state’s ...

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 ...

The 104-page dissent authored by Judge Jerry Smith, who sits on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, criticized U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown’s 160-page majority ruling, and at times mocked his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The day after a federal court struck down Texas's new GOP-friendly congressional map, the lone dissenting judge came out firing both barrels — at the judge who wrote the prevailing opinion. "This is ...