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What are the important Supreme Court cases on redistricting?

April 26, 2017cases Court redistricting Supreme

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What are the important Supreme Court cases on redistricting?

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Although many states required their districts to be redrawn periodically to keep them equally sized, there was no federal requirement and these state-law requirements were frequently ignored. Until 1962, the Supreme Court maintained that these were non-justiciable political questions and refused to rule. These are the major cases that define Supreme Court jurisdiction and the U.S. constitution’s requirements for legislative democracy.