[SierraWasp]

Snoop around this old thread for starters

I'm a little pressed for time today and I hate that because this is my favorite subject. I left the "s" off of what should have read "Cows Don't Vote" and made it harder to understand the imfamous old phrase the Warren Court used to blastpheme the US Constitution and desecrate it!

Another way to put it that is even more dramatic and bizzare is... Try to imagine the upper house of the US legislature with only one representative for 8, or 9 western states!!!

[Forest Keeper]

**PING** to #139.

Skip the article and click on the posted cow link. (If I only had a nickel for every time I've said those words...)

[Forest Keeper]

Thank you very much for the link, I learned a lot. In a bicameral state system, I wonder if Alito would only object to the reapportionment rule application to the senate side, or would he object to the courts getting involved at all. I admit that I'm not sure there wouldn't be a legitimate equal protection argument as to the state assembly/"House" side. What is your view?

[calcowgirl]

These are the relevant links from the link you posted.

From Findlaw.com:
U.S. Supreme Court, REYNOLDS v. SIMS, 377 U.S. 533 (1964)

From the State Department Website under the category "Basic Readings In U.S. Democracy":
REYNOLDS V. SIMS (1964)

This blogger (Rick Hasen, Loyola Law School Professor--and Dem) also highlighted the issue early on and has some interesting comments with links to various articles.

Election Law Blog

Judge Alito as an Opponent of One Person, One Vote?

[Agrarian]

For a country boy like me (especially one who is a traditionalist), this subject is also near and dear to my heart.


I like your analogy of one Senator for 8 or 9 Western states...

Of course, people from the blue states would ask "what's wrong with that?