Dissenting judge torches colleague for ‘judicial misbehavior’ in blocking Texas map

The federal judge who dissented from the bid striking down Texas’s caller Republican-friendly House representation torched his colleague in an explosive opinion published Wednesday, accusing him of “pernicious judicial misbehavior.”  “In my 37 years connected the national bench, this is the astir outrageous conduct by a justice that I person ever encountered successful a lawsuit successful which I person been involved,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith.  His 104-page…