TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Apr 4, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld that state and local governments can continue their longstanding method of drawing state and municipal election districts, USA Today reports. The unanimous decision denied an effort by conservatives in a Texas case that argued only eligible voters should be counted rather than drawing districts with roughly equal numbers of residents. "Adopting voter-eligible apportionment as constitutional command would upset a well-functioning approach to districting that all 50 states and countless local jurisdictions have followed for decades, even centuries," Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote.