United States v. Gates

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[flederal court review of districting legislation represents a serious intrusion on the most vital of local functions.”
• noting that plan split several counties, and thus violated traditional districting principles-use of precincts could not mitigate this fact in congressional districting
• recognizing the compliance with the Voting Rights Act as a compelling state interest
• noting that courts must be \sensitive to the complex interplay of forces that enter a legislature’s redistricting calculus” and afford states the \discretion to exercise the political judgment necessary to balance competing interests”
• recognizing “respect for political subdivisions” as a traditional districting principle
• affirming the district court's conclusion that one district in Georgia's congressional redistricting plan was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander

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