Rep. Marc LaHood, R-San Antonio, looks at a congressional redistricting map during debate of a congressional redistricting plan in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Austin, Wednesday, August 20,. (Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman/Getty Images/File

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 finish writing his dissent, saying they had lost “any pretense of judicial restraint, good faith, or trust.”

The statement issued by Judge Jerry Smith, who sits on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, accuses the two other judges of unfairly rushing to get their ruling out on Tuesday even after he told them he had not wrapped up his p

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