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, n. 11 (1986), also called "packing," Voinovich, supra, at 153. of Ed., supra, at 282-283 (plurality opinion). United States Supreme Court case concerning racial gerrymandering, where racial minority majority-electoral districts were created during Texas' 1990 redistricting to increase . Such districting might have both the intent and effect of "packing" members of the group so as to deprive them of any influence in other districts. See Reynolds, Society has become more equal in terms of politics. drawn favor the minority, since equal protection analysis is not (a) The District Court properly dismissed the claims against the It reinforces the perception that members of the same racial group - regardless of their age, education, economic status, or the community in which they live - think alike, share the same political interests, and will prefer the same candidates at the polls. 91-2038, p. 43a (Complaint in Pope v. Blue, No. 1973. JUSTICE SOUTER contends that exacting scrutiny of racial gerrymanders under the Fourteenth Amendment is inappropriate because reapportionment "nearly always require[s] some consideration of race for legitimate reasons." Since Shaw, the Supreme Court has continued to chip away at voting rights, handing down two more damaging decisions at the end of its 1994 term. See 42 U.S.C. Found inside – Page 232... views known in an apocalyptic dissenting opinion in Metro Broadcasting v. ... Reno (Shaw I), following their color-blind principles into the political ... JUSTICE SOUTER apparently views racial gerrymandering of the type presented here as a special category of "benign" racial discrimination that should be subject to relaxed judicial review. White believed that the appellants were not able to show how they had received a "cognizable injury." In other words, . purposeful creation of a majority-minority district could have discriminatory effect if it is achieved by means of "packing" - i.e., over concentration of minority voters. Although the boundary lines were somewhat irregular, the majority reasoned, they were not so bizarre as to permit of no other conclusion. See Wright v. Rockefeller, 211 F.Supp. prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. This is altogether antithetical to our system of representative democracy. (1973); the fragmentation of a minority group among various districts "so that it is a majority in none," Voinovich v. Quilter, Found inside – Page xxvHe was the author of the Court's landmark opinion in Washington v. ... Reno, 509 U.S. 630, 658–664 (1993) (White, J., dissenting); Port Arthur v. See ante, at 4-6 ante, at 13. See Whitcomb v. Chavis, Pp . appellees. Following the 1990 census, the North Carolina legislature set out to redraw voting districts in the state. In the absence of an allegation of such harm, I would affirm the judgment of the District Court. unnecessary to decide whether or how a reapportionment plan that, This is true whether the jurisdiction chose the more dilutive plan because it better comported with its traditional districting principles, see Miller v. Finally, we must ask whether otherwise permissible redistricting to benefit an underrepresented minority group becomes Found inside – Page 510They argued that the minoritySupreme Courtnominee with President Ronald Reagan in 1981, delivered the majority opinion in Shaw v. Reno, stating that the ... I read these decisions quite differently. (1967). , In Guinn v. United States, 238 U.S. 347 (1915), the Court invalidated under the Fifteenth Amendment a statute that imposed a literacy requirement on voters but contained a "grandfather clause" applicable to individuals and their lineal descendants entitled to vote "on [or prior to] January 1, 1866." The email address cannot be subscribed. Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case argued on April 20, 1993. Tr. Found inside – Page 320Reno , 1993 , at 4823 ) Dissenting justices agreed with the court below that the serpentine ... Both the majority opinion and the dissents in Shaw v . Reno ... More importantly, the majority's submission does not withstand analysis. (plurality opinion). U.S. 367, 385 506 U.S. 801 Appellants, five North Carolina residents, v. Bakke, (1973) (multimember districts); Whitcomb v. Chavis, Where it exists, most often the result is that neither white nor black can be elected from a district in which his race is in the minority." usually to defeat the minority's preferred candidate." Rather, appellants' complaint alleged that the deliberate segregation of voters into separate districts on the basis of race violated their constitutional right to participate in a "color-blind" electoral process. This set the stage for the Court's first hybrid case under the Equal Protection clause — alleging racial and political .   Ibid. The plaintiffs alleged that the plan was drawn with the intent to segregate voters on the basis of race, in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Over 20 states argued that a voluntary prayer before school didn't violate the . . voters" on the basis of race. [ (1975); White v. Regester, . Gerrymandering refers to the drawing of voting district boundaries to These unarguable facts, which the Court devotes most of its opinion to proving, give rise to three constitutional questions: Does the . Gerrymandering Supreme Court Case Questions Textbook Reading Location 2 nd Edition 3 rd Edition Baker v. Carr: pg.103-106 Shaw v. Reno: pg. OCTOBER TERM, 1992.   As for the second question, I believe that the Equal Protection Clause is violated when the State creates the kind of uncouth district boundaries seen in Karcher v. Daggett, This case involves two of the most complex and sensitive issues this Court has faced in recent years: the meaning of the constitutional "right" to vote, and the propriety of race-based state legislation designed to benefit members of historically disadvantaged racial minority groups. governmental interest. boundary lines drawn in the south-central to southeastern region of the State. [509 U.S. 630, 7] See ante, at 16. rest of the majority's equal protection analysis. Found inside – Page 247In time dissenting judges picked up these themes, especially in the southern courts. Then in a 1993 opinion, Shaw v. Reno, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted ... U.S. 217, 225 . 430 U.S. 144 It is against this background that we confront the questions presented here. debate recently reached our nation's highest court in the case of Shaw v. Reno. . (1980) (same); White v. Regester, If, on remand, the allegations of a racial gerrymander are not Writing for three members of the Court, I justified this conclusion as follows: In light of this background, it strains credulity to suggest that North Carolina's purpose in creating a second majority-minority district was to discriminate against members of the majority group by "impair[ing] or burden[ing their] opportunity . v. Leesville Concrete Co., (1977) (UJO). Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act forbids The majority's contrary view is perplexing in light of its concession that "compactness or attractiveness has never been held to constitute an independent federal constitutional requirement for state legislative districts." 129-130 Note: dissenting opinions not included in textbook, are included on the next page Baker v. Carr 1. 393 This Court has held political gerrymanders to be justiciable under the Equal Protection Clause. The court agreed unanimously that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction by reason of 14(b) of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey, 430 U.S. 144 (UJO), (1977). It may be that the terms for pleading this cause of action will be met so rarely that this case will wind up an aberration. As we have held, one's constitutional rights are not violated merely because the candidate one supports loses the election or because a group (including a racial group) to which one belongs winds up with a representative from outside that group. Earlier this Term, we unanimously reaffirmed that racial bloc voting and minority-group political cohesion never can be assumed, but specifically must be proved in each case in order to establish that a redistricting plan dilutes minority voting strength in violation of 2. A contrary conclusion could only be described as perverse. Forty of North Carolina's one hundred counties are covered by 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C.   This question also need not be decided at this stage of the litigation. . unconstitutional, were not developed below, and the issues remain See Mobile v. Bolden, Found inside – Page 238... 2001, terrorist attacks, xiii, 153, 211, 218, 221 Shaw v. Reno, 19 Souter, David, 9, 12–13, 52–53, 90, 205; 1992 opinion, 63, 174; dissenting opinion, ... ] Recognition of actual commonality of interest and racially polarized bloc voting cannot be equated with the "'invocation of race stereotypes'" described by the Court, ante, at 16 (quoting Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., 42 U.S.C. Justice Stewart was the only justice to disagree and dissent with the decision in the 6-1 vote taken on June 25th, 1962. 1983). As the Court noted, the "inevitable effect of this redefinition of Tuskegee's boundaries" was "to deprive the Negro petitioners discriminatorily of the benefits of residence in Tuskegee." protection, or about the appropriateness of strict or other heightened scrutiny. Robinson O. Everett: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: As our complaint seeks to make clear, this case poses the basic issue of how far a legislature may go in seeking to guarantee the election to Congress of persons of a particular race. Under that principle, a proposed voting change cannot be precleared if it will lead to "a retrogression in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise."   UJO's framework simply does not apply where, as here, a reapportionment plan is alleged to be so irrational on its face that it immediately offends principles of racial equality. But it suffices to illustrate the unworkability of a standard that is divorced from any measure of constitutional harm. The court ruled in a 5-4 decision that redistricting based on race must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny under the equal protection clause. Indeed, racial classifications receive close scrutiny even when they may be said to burden or benefit the races equally. at the group's overall influence over, and treatment by, elected representatives and the political process as a whole. The States certainly have a very strong interest in complying with federal antidiscrimination laws that are constitutionally valid as interpreted and as applied. Since the holding here makes it The majority first took judicial notice of a fact omitted from appellants' complaint: that appellants are white. mcdonald v chicago dissenting opinion majority's decision to overturn more than a century of Supreme Court was required to give Congress the power to enforce the Bill of Rights citizens a certain collection of rights--i.e., privileges or Eprimo Erfahrung, discriminatory restrictions. usually to defeat the minority's preferred candidate." , n. 2 (1990) ("[A] prosecutor's assumption that a black juror may be presumed to be partial simply because he is black . ] "Bloc racial voting is an unfortunate phenomenon, but we are repeatedly faced with the findings of knowledgeable district courts that it is a fact of life. [509 U.S. 630, 13] Found inside – Page 224Johnson , 515 U.S. 900 ( 1995 ) ( per Kennedy , J. ) and Shaw v . Reno ... ( 1992 ) ( Rehnquist joining Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion ) ; Wallace v . As UJO held, a State is entitled to take such action. In determining whether a use of race is permissible in cases in which there is a bizarrely shaped district, we can readily look to its effects, just as we would in evaluating any other electoral districting scheme. The Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) held that the Appellants, Shaw and others (Appellants), have a legitimate claim that North Carolina's redistricting scheme was so irregular on its face that it could only be viewed […] Instead, the Court creates a new "analytically distinct," ibid., cause of action, the principal element of which is that a districting plan be "so bizarre on its face," ante, at 12, or "irrational on its face," ante, at 21, or "extremely irregular on its face," ante, at 10, that it "rationally cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to segregate citizens into separate voting districts on the basis of race without sufficient justification," ante, at 21. I add these comments to emphasize that the two critical facts in this case are undisputed: First, the shape of District 12 is so bizarre that it must have been drawn for the purpose of either advantaging or disadvantaging a cognizable group of voters; and, second, regardless of that shape, it was drawn for the purpose of facilitating the election of a second black representative from North Carolina. Footnote 3 O. Gade & H. Stillwell, North Carolina: People and Environments 65-68 (1986). 403 U.S. 124 At least the latter two of these three conditions depend on proving that what the Court today brands as "impermissible racial stereotypes," ante, at 16, are true. In other words, the statute was invalid because, on its face, it could not be explained on grounds other than race. (1960) (voters alleged to have been excluded from voting in the municipality). Citation509 U.S. 630, 113 S. Ct. 2816, 125 L. Ed. examined against the backdrop of this country's long history of racial Justice Stevens, dissenting. 808 F.Supp. x��\[o��~7����Ra�p�w��I{ No. In the present case, the facts could sustain no such allegation. The Court characterizes the decision as "highly fractured," ante, at 19, but that should not detract attention from the rejection by a majority in UJO of the claim that the State's intentional creation of majority-minority districts transgressed constitutional norms. 446 Full Text of Opinion. WHITE, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which BLACKMUN and STEVENS, JJ., joined, post, p. ___. (1954). Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in the area of redistricting and racial gerrymandering. U.S. 725, 744 See, e.g., Chapman v. Meier, Dissenting Opinion (Frankfurter and Harlan) Decision Analysis . Again, however, the equal protection inquiry should look Justice O'Connor explained that because the redistricting had no other purpose than to separate voters by race, Gomillion, in which a tortured municipal boundary line was drawn to exclude black voters, was such a case. There is thus no theoretical inconsistency in having two distinct approaches to equal protection analysis, one for cases of electoral districting and one for most other types of state governmental decisions. opinions. But application of the Court's standard helps achieve Shaw `s basic objective of making extreme instances of gerrymandering subject to meaningful judicial review. DISSENTING OPINION "If it is permissible to draw boundaries to provide adequate representation for rural voters, for union members, for Hasidic Jews, for Polish Americans, or for Republicans," wrote Justice Stevens in dissent, "it necessarily follows that it is permissible to do the same . U.S. 755, 765 The most compelling evidence of the Court's position prior to this day, for it is most directly on point, is UJO, Footnote 6 478 U.S., at 178 U.S. 252, 266 Every member of the Court assumed that the plaintiffs' allegation that the statute "segregate[d] eligible voters by race and place of origin" stated a constitutional claim. (plurality opinion); see also id., at 520 (SCALIA, J., concurring in judgment). U.S. 497, 500 endobj In some States, registration of eligible black voters ran 50% behind that of whites. UJO, U.S. 30, 46 Found inside – Page 232Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, majority opinion in Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630, 1993 Until today the court has analyzed equal protection claims involving race ... of white voters statewide. in traditional suits attacking its constitutionality"). See supra, at 15-17. , 765 (1983) (STEVENS, J., concurring); see also Davis v. Bandemer, Wikipedia. See, e.g., Rogers v. Lodge, A. Thernstrom, Whose Votes Count? . United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey, In each instance, race is consciously utilized by the legislature for electoral purposes; in each instance, we have put the plaintiff challenging the district lines to the burden of demonstrating that the plan was meant to, and did in fact, exclude an identifiable racial group from participation in the political process. U.S. 407, 422 In that, state efforts to remedy minority vote dilution are wholly unlike what typically has been labeled "affirmative action." Footnote 5 Footnote 3 The General Assembly located the second district not in the south-central to southeastern part of the State, but in the north-central region along Interstate 85. The new district stretches approximately They contend that the State's black population is too dispersed to support two geographically compact majority-black districts, as the bizarre shape of District 12 demonstrates, and that there is no evidence of black political cohesion. 461, 476 (EDNC 1992) (Voorhees, C.J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), and a "bug splattered on a windshield," Wall Street Journal, Feb. 4, 1992, p. A14. App. Cf. Found inside – Page 167Shaw v . Reno , 4823 . 54. “ Political Pornography — II , ” Wall Street ... the majority opinion and a dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens , see Shaw v . In other words, the There is a characteristic coincidence of disadvantageous effect and illegitimate purpose associated with the State's use of race in those situations in which it has immediately triggered at least heightened scrutiny (which every Member of the Court to address the issue has agreed must be applied even to race-based classifications designed to serve some permissible state interest). Footnote 4 But here, the tables were turned. Found inside – Page 1715 See Justice White's denunciation of the majority opinion in Shaw v. Reno, 113 S.Ct. 2816, 2840 (1993). 16 See Anthony D'Amato, ... Found insideShaw v Reno (1993) Essential Fact: After North Carolina created three ... Majority Opinion: In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court reversed the lower-court ... The District Court in Pope dismissed appellants' claim, reasoning in part that "plaintiffs do not allege, nor can they, that the state's redistricting plan has caused them to be `shut out of the political process.'" [509 U.S. 630, 4] Express racial classifications are immediately suspect because, "[a]bsent searching judicial inquiry . Identify the constitutional principle at issue in this case. 364 U.S., at 341 nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon voters into separate districts on the basis of race, and that the 430 U.S., at 168 Moreover, a group's power to affect the political process does not automatically dissipate by virtue of an electoral loss. Instead, it is the State that must rebut the allegation that race was taken into account, a fact that, together with the legislators' consideration of ethnic, religious, and other group characteristics, I had thought we practically took for granted, see supra at 3. (1991) ("It is axiomatic that racial classifications do not become legitimate on the assumption that all persons suffer them in equal degree"). of the motivations underlying its adoption. [ Representatives. U.S. 474, 484 Accordingly, they held that plaintiffs were not entitled to relief under the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. [ Statement 102a. Ante, at 22; see also ante, at 26. time." Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., See Davis v. Bandemer, Under our cases, there is in general a requirement that, in order to obtain relief under the Fourteenth Amendment, the purpose and effect of the districting must be to devalue the effectiveness of a voter compared to what, as a group member, he would otherwise be able to enjoy. In an To distinguish a claim that alleges that the redistricting scheme has discriminatory intent and effect from one that does not has nothing to do with dividing racial classifications between the "benign" and the malicious - an enterprise which, as the majority notes, the Court has treated with skepticism. 478 other constitutional provisions. Indeed, in a suit brought prior to this one, different plaintiffs charged that District 12 was "grossly contorted," and had "no logical explanation other than incumbency protection and the enhancement of Democratic partisan interests. Found insideDissenting Opinion: The minority said the Court cast aside history and judicial ... Shaw v Reno (1993) Essential Fact: After North Carolina created three ... (1982) (at-large system); Mobile v. Bolden, Pp. Act (VRA) in 1982 targeted "vote dilution" - situations where a racial minority was spread so thin See Richmond v. J.A. interest in minimizing the consequences of racial bloc voting apart It is also unnecessary to decide at See, e.g., Rogers v. Lodge, (equating various articulations of standards of review "more stringent" than "'reasonableness'" with "strict scrutiny"). 129-130 Note: dissenting opinions not included in textbook, are included on the next page Baker v. Carr 1. gerrymandering poses no constitutional difficulties when the lines 478 3:92CV71-P (WDNC)). Shaw v. Reno is a 1993 Supreme Court decision on a case involving redistricting and racial U.S. 265, 304 U.S. 755, 765 The Justices disagreed only as to whether the plaintiffs had carried their burden of proof at trial. If not, it does not. [509 U.S. 630, 26] The Supreme Court continues to hear cases about gerrymandering and racially motivated districts. dissent of baker v. carr. authorization--North Carolina submitted to the Attorney General a Drawing on the "one person, one vote" principle, this Court recognized that "[t]he right to vote can be affected by a dilution of voting power as well as by an absolute prohibition on casting a ballot." Cf. The state appellees submit that two pieces of evidence gave the General Assembly a strong basis for believing that remedial action was warranted here: the Attorney General's imposition of the 5 preclearance requirement on 40 North Carolina counties, and the Gingles District Court's findings of a long history of official racial discrimination in North Carolina's political system and of pervasive racial bloc voting. A. Croson Co., 488 U. S. 469, 493 (1989) (plurality opinion); id., at 520 (SCALIA, J., concurring in judgment); see also UJO, 430 U. S., at 172 (Brennan, J., concurring in part) (" [A] purportedly . Found inside – Page 134The dissenting opinions in Reno v. Shaw (1993) were concerned that the Equal Protections Clause was now being used to hurt a minority group. I dissent.   The three judge District In Holder v. Hall, the Court upset an ACLU lower court victory by upholding the single commissioner form of government in Bleckley County, Georgia -- despite solid proof of minority vote dilution. 75-104, p. 6, n. 6) (emphasis in original). Edwin S. Kneedler argued the cause for federal appellees. See 808 F.Supp., at 472-473. Its central purpose is to prevent the States from purposefully discriminating between individuals on the basis of race. 21-26. The district lines may be drawn, for example, to provide for compact districts of contiguous territory, or to maintain the integrity of political subdivisions. Nonetheless, the notion that North Carolina's plan, under which whites remain a voting majority in a disproportionate number of congressional districts, and pursuant to which the State has sent its first black representatives since Reconstruction to the United States Congress, might have violated appellants' constitutional rights is both a fiction and a departure from settled equal protection principles. that the history of the area demonstrates that there could be - and in fact was - no reason other than race to divide the community at this O'Connor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Argued April 20, 1993 -- Decided June 28, 1993. They reinforce the belief, held by too many for too much of our history, that individuals should be judged by the color of their skin. In Whitcomb v. Chavis, (1989) (city contracting); Wygant v. Jackson Bd. Found insideThis book examines a pattern of conservative resurgence following several eras of reform in American history by pointing to the phenomenon of "recalibration". 476 Shaw v. Reno [Shaw I] Citation509 U.S. 630, 113 S. Ct. 2816, 125 L. Ed. A consequence of this categorical approach is the absence of any need for further searching "scrutiny" once it has been shown that a given districting decision has a purpose and effect falling within one of those categories. v. Bakke, 376 U.S., at 54 The fact that a demonstration of discriminatory effect was required in that case was not a function of the kind of claim that was made. When an assumption that people in a particular minority group (whether they are defined by the political party, religion, ethnic group, or race to which they belong) will vote in a particular way is used to benefit that group, no constitutional violation occurs. 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