tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post3483104545409381557..comments2024-03-27T11:00:44.652-05:00Comments on Michael-In-Norfolk - Coming Out in Mid-Life: Conservatives Suffer Huge Loss at the U. S. Supreme CourtMichael-in-Norfolkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06330888799107186550noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post-80882986696325422592016-04-05T03:12:28.349-05:002016-04-05T03:12:28.349-05:00I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this wa...I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this was an exceptionally scummy attempt by the Republican reactionaries to overturn the "one man one vote" decisions of Baker v. Carr and, particularly, Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which held that "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests."<br /><br />Sadly, this was not embraced unanimously by the Supreme Court justices, a couple of whom felt that it was perfectly fine for the votes of some people to be worth many times more than the votes of other people, an idea that before the advent of the Roberts court, decent people throughout the world, and even formally if not in practice totalitarian regimes, had cast in the landfill of history.<br /><br />Somewhat separately, I am somewhat surprised that Justice Uncle Clarence Thomas has not yet called for the reinstitution of Plessy v. Ferguson.EdAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00867807586210871787noreply@blogger.com