Subject: More (?) from Judge Alito on One Person, One Vote
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 1/11/2006, 10:49 AM
To: election-law

More (?) from Judge Alito on One Person, One Vote

Via Campaign for the Court and SCOTUSblog, it appears that Sen. Grassley asked Judge Alito about his 1985 job application's statement about the Warren Court's reapportionment decisions. According to Campaign for the Court, "Alito reiterated that he thought one-man, one-vote was a 'good principle' but that the court had taken 'it to extremes' with its subsequent insistence that districts be drawn in such a mathematically precise way as to allow practically no variation whatsoever" At this point, we are not likely to get any more on this issue from the hearings. I'm looking forward to Sam Issachroff's testimony on this issue later in the week.

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