Clifford Thompson v. Marty Allen, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that in 1965 apportionment based on total population was stated to be “constitutionally unassailable beyond question.”
• explaining that \[s]tates must draw congressional districts with populations as close to perfect equality as possible\
• stating that the state election system in Gray “contravene[d] the principles of both voter and representational equality”
• stating that \all States use total-population numbers from the census when designing congressional and state-legislative districts\
• explaining that “jurisdictions must design both congressional and state-legislative districts with equal populations, and must regularly reapportion districts to prevent malapportionment”
• explaining that “jurisdictions must design both congressional and state-legislative districts with equal populations, and must regularly reapportion districts to prevent malapportionment”

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