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• n  a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)

• Politically, Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them.
• Unless the reapportionment struggle is reopened in the December-March session, the losses gains in State representation will become law on March 4, 1931.
• Bickel held that the court's decisions on school integration and one man-one vote reapportionment usurped legislative power.

• reallotment
• reallocation

News & Articles

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• Al Sharpton: The Supreme Court ‘Just Cancelled The Dream’ Of MLK Jr. In Voting Rights Decision
  Reacting to the decision by the Supreme Court to invalidate portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 relating to the regions required to submit reapportionment plans to the Justice Department for preclearance, Rev. Al Sharpton expressed his disappointment with the Court on MSNBC. Sharpton said that the “dream” articulated by Martin Luther King Jr . related, in part, to voting rights and the ...
  June 25, 2013 - Mediaite
• BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Provisions Of The Voting Rights Act
  In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The preclearance requirement in Section 5 was upheld, but the map of regions used to determine which areas of the country required to submit reapportionment proposals to the Department of Justice in the VRA’s Section 4 was struck down. The Supreme Court left it up to Congress to fix what they ...
  June 25, 2013 - Mediaite
• Howard Fineman: Voting Rights ‘Preclearance Is Dead Unless Congress Acts Soon’
  The Huffington Post Editorial Director Howard Fineman delivered a grim prognosis relating to the sustainability of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after the Supreme Court struck from the law provisions relating to the regions of the United States which must submit reapportionment proposals to the Justice Department for preclearance. “Preclearance is dead,” Fineman said, “unless Congress acts soon.”
  June 25, 2013 - Mediaite