The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the longstanding practice of using total population in drawing equal legislative districts, embracing the “one-person-one-vote” doctrine and frowning on a different approach that could have recast thousands of electoral maps.
But the 8-0 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Evenwel v. Abbott did not rule out the possibility that states could use voting population or other controversial metrics as a basis for equalizing districts in the future—methods that critics say would shift political power from urban to rural populations.
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