This morning, the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous decision in Evenwel v. Abbott, the case challenging the well-established “one person, one vote” principle that legislative districts should be based on the total number of people who live within them.
With the sudden death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this past Saturday, the attention of the nation has focused like a laser on the Court – its composition, the docket of cases now before it and the historic process ahead of Justice Scalia’s successor being nominated and confirmed.
Today Lambda Legal, the ACLU and private firm Gerhardstein & Branch filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ aberrant ruling upholding discriminatory bans on marriage rights for same-sex couples in Ohio and three other states.