The question before us is whether appellants have stated a cognizable claim. Fast Facts: Baker v. Carr Consider that PC has a 35% tax rate. Since that system is at war with. They alleged that the two districts concentrated a majority of black voters arbitrarily without regard to considerations such as compactness, contiguousness, geographical boundaries, or political subdivisions, in order to create congressional districts along racial lines and to assure the election of two black representatives. A reapportionment statute typically does not classify persons at all; it classifies tracts of land, or addresses. Beer v. United States, 425 U. S. 130, 141 (1976). We also do not decide. Today we hold only that appellants have stated a claim under the Equal Protection Clause by alleging that the North Carolina General Assembly adopted a reapportionment scheme so irrational on its face that it can be understood only as an effort to segregate voters into separate voting districts because of their race, and that the separation lacks sufficient justification. What is the maximum temperature? A reapportionment plan that includes in one district individuals who belong to the same race, but who are otherwise widely separated by geographical and political boundaries, and who may have little in common with one another but the color of their skin, bears an uncomfortable resemblance to political apartheid. Shaw's group claimed that drawing districts based on race violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. As for representative democracy, I have difficulty seeing how it is threatened (indeed why it is not, rather, enhanced) by districts that are not even alleged to dilute anyone's vote. 2. by Wayne R. Arden and Jeffrey M. Wice; for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law et al. UJO's framework simply does not apply where, as here, a reapportionment plan is alleged to be so irrational on its face that it immediately offends principles of racial equality. It included all or portions of twenty-eight counties. What appellants object to is redistricting legislation that is so extremely irregular on its face that it rationally can be viewed only as an effort to segregate the races for purposes of voting, without regard for traditional districting principles and without sufficiently compelling justification. ); id., at 175-179 (Brennan, J., concurring in part); id., at 180 (Stewart, J., concurring in judgment). It is for these reasons that race-based districting by our state legislatures demands close judicial scrutiny. 808 F. whether appellants' complaint stated a claim under constitutional provisions other than the Fourteenth Amendment. tution), it has seemed more appropriate for the Court to identify impermissible uses by describing particular effects sufficiently serious to justify recognition under the Fourteenth Amendment. It is unnecessary for us to decide whether or how a reapportionment plan that, on its face, can be explained in nonracial terms successfully could be challenged. taker's concurrence appears to be premised on the notion that black citizens were being "fenc[ed] out" of municipal benefits. Under the three-part test established by Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U. S. 30, 50-51 (1986), a minority group must show that it could constitute the majority in a single-member district, "that it is politically cohesive," and "that the white majority votes sufficiently as a bloc to enable it usually to defeat the minority's preferred candidate." Since there is no justification for the departure here from the principles that continue to govern electoral districting cases generally in accordance with our prior decisions, I would not respond to the seeming egregiousness of the redistricting now before us by untethering the concept of racial gerrymander in such a case from the concept of harm exemplified by dilution. See United States v. Detroit Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321, 337. Gaffney v. Cummings, 412. T. HOMAS. 430 U. S., at 165. It is also unnecessary to decide at this stage of the litigation whether the plan advances a state interest distinct from the Act: eradicating the effects of past racial discrimination. ), or that such had been the State's intent, see id., at 179-180 (Stewart, J., joined by Powell, J., concurring in judgment). But while district irregularities may provide strong indicia of a potential gerrymander, they do no more than that. Despite their invocation of the ideal of a "color-blind" Constitution, see Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537, 559 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting), appellants appear to concede that race-conscious redistricting is not always unconstitutional. In the present case, the facts could sustain no such allegation. the group claimed that the districts were racial gerrymanders that violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Its considering building a new $65 million manufacturing facility. The largest concentrations of black citizens live in the Coastal Plain, primarily in the northern part. Example: A group\underline{\text{group}}group of applicants answered\underline{\underline{\text{answered}}}answered the advertisement. Part of the explanation for the majority's approach has to do, perhaps, with the emotions stirred by words such as "segregation" and "political apartheid." 639-642. Explain New York free trade zone class codes. Katzenbach, Michael R. Cole, Alan E. Kraus, Laughlin McDonald, Kathy Wilde, E. Richard Larson, and Dennis Courtland Hayes; for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., by Elaine R. Jones, Charles Stephen Ralston, and Dayna L. Cunningham; and for Bolley Johnson et al. In our view, the District Court properly dismissed appellants' claims against the federal appellees. This Court has held political gerrymanders to be justiciable under the Equal Protection Clause. these are all arguments for ( ) side. See ante, at 649. Appellants contended that the General Assembly's revised reapportionment plan violated several provisions of the United States Constitution, including the Fourteenth Amendment. Some 90 years later, Alabama redefined the boundaries of the city of Tuskegee "from a square to an uncouth twenty-eight-sided figure" in a manner that was alleged to exclude black voters, and only black voters, from the city limits. Appellants sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the state appellees. Karcher v. Daggett, 462 U. S. 725, 758 (1983) (STEVENS, J., concurring). It is true, of course, that one's vote may be more or less effective depending on the interests of the other individuals who are in one's district, and our cases recognize the reality that members of the same race often have shared interests. Argued April 20, 1993-Decided June 28,1993. Robinson O. Everett argued the cause for appellants. The majority-minority district that is at the center of the controversy is, according to the State, 54.71% Mrican-American. In Guinn v. United States, 238 U. S. 347 (1915), the Court invalidated under the Fifteenth Amendment a statute that imposed a literacy requirement on voters but contained a "grandfather clause" applicable to individuals and their lineal descendants entitled to vote "on [or prior to] January 1, 1866." Shaw appealed. Id., at 349 (concurring opinion). 2 It should be noted that 2 of the Voting Rights Act forbids any State to impose specified devices or procedures that result in a denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race or color. Pope v. Blue, 809 F. Supp. of Ed., 476 U. S. 267 (1986) (teacher layoffs), electoral districting calls for decisions that nearly always require some consideration of race for legitimate reasons where there is a racially mixed population. See Part V for a discussion of these dissenting opinions. Racial classifications of any sort pose the risk of lasting harm to our society. 657-658. They did not even claim to be white. App. Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center, 13. In the Attorney General's view, the General Assembly could have created a second majorityminority district "to give effect to black and Native American voting strength in this area" by using boundary lines "no more irregular than [those] found elsewhere in the proposed plan," but failed to do so for "pretextual reasons." Even Justice Whit-. Disregard for geographic divisions and compactness often goes hand in hand with partisan gerrymandering. 808 F. in relevant part). (b) Classifications of citizens based solely on race are by their nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality, because they threaten to stigmatize persons by reason of their membership in a racial group and to incite racial hostility. Indeed, because most of the nonwhite voters lived together in one area, it would have been difficult to construct voting districts without concentrations of nonwhite voters. It is against this background that we confront the questions presented here. Naomi buys $1,000 worth of American Express travelers checks and charges But even recast as a Fourteenth Amendment case, Gomillion does not assist the majority, for its focus was on the alleged effect of the city's action, which was to exclude black voters from the municipality of Tuskegee. In my view there is no justification for the. See Davis v. Bandemer, 478 U. S., at 118-127. The distinction is untenable. Photochronograph Corporation (PC) manufactures time series photographic equipment. Karcher v. Daggett, 462 U. S. 725, 755 (1983) (STEVENS, J., concurring) ("One need not use Justice Stewart's classic definition of obscenity-'I know it when I see it' -as an ultimate standard for judging the constitutionality of a gerrymander to recognize that dramatically irregular shapes may have sufficient probative force to call for an explanation" (footnotes omitted)). Express racial classifications are immediately suspect because, "[a]bsent searching judicial inquiry , there is simply no way of determining what classifications are 'benign' or 'remedial' and what classi-. Put differently, we believe that reapportionment is one area in which appearances do matter. Although I would leave this question for another day, I would note that even then courts have insisted on "some showing of injury to assure that the district court can impose a meaningful remedy." I respectfully dissent. Rather than challenge this conclusion, North Carolina chose to draw the second district. John Paul . zarre shape of District 12 demonstrates, and that there is no evidence of black political cohesion. North Carolina's decision to create a majority-minority district can be explained as an attempt to meet this objection. These principles apply not only to legislation that contains explicit racial distinctions, but also to those "rare" statutes that, although race-neutral, are, on their face, "unexplainable on grounds other than race." Pp. Journalize the entry to record the identification of the customers bad debt. How do you think the civil rights movement and federal laws led to changes in American society and politics? The principle of equality is at war with the notion that District A must be represented by a Negro, as it is with the notion that District B must be represented by a Caucasian, District C by a Jew, District D by a Catholic, and so on. That system, by whatever name it is called, is a divisive force in a community, emphasizing differences between candidates and voters that are irrelevant in the constitutional sense. "When racial or religious lines are drawn by the State, the multiracial, multireligious communities that our Constitution seeks to weld together as one become separatist; antagonisms that relate to race or to religion rather than to political issues are generated; communities seek not the best representative but the best racial or religious partisan. JUSTICE SOUTER does not adequately explain why these harms are not cognizable under the Fourteenth Amendment. It may be that the terms for pleading this cause of action will be met so rarely that this case will wind up an aberra-. Rather, appellants' complaint alleged that the deliberate segregation of voters into separate districts on the basis of race violated their constitutional right to participate in a "color-blind". Nor is there any support for the. Gomillion, supra, at 341. of Ed., 476 U. S. 267, 277-278 (plurality opinion). The majority read UJO to stand for the proposition that a redistricting scheme violates white voters' rights only if it is "adopted with the purpose and effect of discriminating against white voters on account of their race." Id., at 313. No.1, 458 U. S. 457, 485 (1982). Supp., at 475-477 (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part). b. But we have held that such principles are not constitutionally required, with the consequence that their absence cannot justify the distinct constitutional regime put in place by the Court today. The Court today chooses not to overrule, but rather to sidestep,UJO. 92-357 Argued: April 20, 1993 Decided: June 28, 1993. Appellants are five residents of Dur-. As stated above, five Justices were of the view that, absent any contention that the proposed plan was adopted with the intent, or had the effect, of unduly minimizing the white majority's voting strength, the Fourteenth Amendment was not implicated. As Justice Douglas explained in his dissent inWright v. Rockefellernearly 30 years ago: "Here the individual is important, not his race, his creed, or his color. Nevertheless, there was no fencing out of the white population from participation in the political processes of the county, and the. H. Lefler & A. Newsom, The History of a Southern State: North Carolina 18-22 (3d ed. Statement 102a. Its central purpose is to prevent the States from purposefully discriminating between individuals on the basis of race. The U.S. Supreme Court and the federal government should encourage states to find ways to comply with the act, even if compliance results in oddly shaped districts, the attorney argued. Court's determination to depart from our prior decisions by carving out this narrow group of cases for strict scrutiny in place of the review customarily applied in cases dealing with discrimination in electoral districting on the basis of race. 21A375 is treated as a . Again, however, the equal protection inquiry should look at the group's overall influence over, and treatment by, elected representatives and the political process as a whole. As we have explained, however, reapportionment legislation that cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to classify and separate voters by race injures voters in other ways. The District Court below relied on these portions of UJO to reject appellants' claim. 633, 637 (1983). Even Members of the Court least inclined to approve of race-based remedial measures have acknowledged the significance of this factor. Allen v. State Bd. To begin, the Court's reliance on that case as the font of its novel type of claim is curious. The Twelfth District received even harsher criticism. The facts of this case mirror those presented inUnited Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey(1977) (UJO), where the Court rejected a claim that creation of a majority-minority district violated the Constitution, either as aper sematter or in light of the circumstances leading to the creation of such a district. Of course the Court has not held that the disadvantaging effect of these uses of race can never be justified by a sufficiently close relationship to a sufficiently strong state interest. In an opinion which explored the nature of "political questions" and the appropriateness of Court action in them, the Court held that there were no such questions to be answered in this case and that legislative apportionment was a justiciable issue. It is approximately 160 miles long and, for much of its length, no wider than the 1-85 corridor. A consequence of this categorical approach is the absence of any need for further searching "scrutiny" once it has been shown that a given districting decision has a purpose and effect falling within one of those categories. Thus, state legislation that expressly distinguishes among citizens on account of race-whether it contains an explicit distinction or is "unexplainable on grounds other than race," Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 429 U. S. 252, 266-must be narrowly tailored to further a compelling governmental interest. Our focus is on appellants' claim that the State engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. The fact that a demonstration of discriminatory effect was required in that case was not a function of the kind of claim that was made. 408 (E.D.N.C. 376 U. S., at 66-67. Finally, we must ask whether otherwise permissible redistricting to benefit an underrepresented minority group becomes impermissible when the minority group is defined by its race. Gaffney v. Cummings, 412 U. S. 735, 752, n. 18 (1973)-but because they are objective factors that may serve to defeat a claim that a district has been gerrymandered on racial lines. See n. 7, supra. of Ed., 476 U. S. 267, 277278 (1986) (plurality opinion); id., at 285 (O'CONNOR, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). In other words, the "analytically distinct claim" the majority discovers today was in plain view and did not carry the day for petitioners. I believe that the Equal Protection Clause is violated when the State creates the kind of uncouth district boundaries seen inKarcher v. Daggett(1983),Gomillion v. Lightfoot)(1960), and this case, for the sole purpose of making it more difficult for members of a minority group to win an election. Enduring Legacy. See Reynolds, 377 U. 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