{"id":1963,"date":"2005-11-16T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/16\/alito-opposed-one-person-one-vote\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T09:37:15","slug":"alito-opposed-one-person-one-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Alito Opposed &quot;One Person, One Vote&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathannewman.org\/log\/archives\/003548.shtml\">Nathan Newman<\/a> notes that in newly-released Alito papers, Alito states that he went into Constitutional law partly because of his opposition to the Warren Court&#8217;s reapportionment decisions. Newman explains what &#8220;reapportionment&#8221; means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the non-lawyers out there, Alito meant he was against the Supreme Court decisions requiring that all state legislative districts be designed to guarantee &#8220;one person, one vote&#8221;, instead of giving some districts with very few voters the same representation as urban districts with far more voters. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Subtract [the Warren Court&#8217;s reapportionment decisions], and our state governments around the country would have remained bastions of racist and anti-democratic prejudice and power. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that conservatives have already begun making excuses. But the bottom line is, Alito demonstrated that faced with one of the most important legal questions in US history, he displayed terrible judgement. His view then was not only wrong, with the benefit of hindsight we can see his view was profoundly anti-democracy.<\/p>\n<p>No one who went into Constitutional law because of profound opposition to &#8220;one person, one vote&#8221; belongs on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Newman notes that in newly-released Alito papers, Alito states that he went into Constitutional law partly because of his opposition to the Warren Court&#8217;s reapportionment decisions. Newman explains what &#8220;reapportionment&#8221; means: For the non-lawyers out there, Alito meant he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}