POL S332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Equal Protection Clause, Political Question

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S332
• Professor: Judith Garber

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(re)apportionment how many? to maintain equal district populations -- as equal as possible. Within the us (done according to census bureau calculations) State hr, senates, judicial districts, county councils, city councils. Reynolds v. sims (1964): states cannot pack some voters into high- population (urban) districts, spread out some voters in low-population (rural) districts. (cid:498)equal protection of the law(cid:499) (14th amendment) Baker v. carr (1962): apportionment it is not a simple (cid:498)political question(cid:499) to be left up to elected representatives; it is a (cid:498)justiciable(cid:499) question for the. Evenwel v. abbott (2016): (cid:498)the case came from texas, which counts other ways of counting were permissible. (cid:494)we need not and do not resolve eligible population rather than total population,(cid:495) justice ruth ginsburg wrote. (cid:499) (re)districting who? everybody, but officials there had asked the court to give state lawmakers the option of using different criteria.