WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court says an Arizona commission did not violate the principle of one-person, one-vote when it redrew the state’s legislative districts in a way that created some with more residents than others.
The justices on Wednesday rejected a challenge from a group of Republican voters who claimed the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission illegally packed GOP voters into some districts while leaving other Democratic-leaning districts with smaller populations.
A panel of federal judges upheld the new boundaries in 2014 after finding that the commission was trying to comply with a now-nullified provision of the Voting Rights Act.
State officials argued that slight differences in population were not enough to violate the Constitution’s equal-protection clause.
Justice Stephen Breyer said the one-person, one-vote principle “does not demand mathematical perfection.”
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The SCOTUS is soo much better without old scags!
I’d have preferred if they had been able to rule on gerrymandering and declare it stupid, unfair and downright unconstitutional.
I thought leaving the seat open was supposed to leave the court balanced 4-4. There are a LOT of 8-0 decisions coming down… Hey Mitch, how’s those three Nos working for you?
Arizona Republicans have been fighting both Clean Elections and the redistricting commission since they were created. Together with the voter fraud bamboozlement, it couldn’t be more obvious that the right wing wants to fix the elections in favor of the wealthy and powerful and white.
Hey, another win for the Democrats and (small d) democratic principles. I’m really getting to like this eight person SC bench! Take that, McTurtle!