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Legislative Reapportionment: The Supreme Court Steps Back
by Rob Natelson June 9, 2016The Supreme Court recently stepped back from its campaign to impose its political preferences on the states. In Evenwel v. Abbott, the justices held while the U.S. Constitution requires states to apportion their legislatures solely by population, the Constitution does not prescribe a particular way of counting population.