Court Opinion

ID: 9690867
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 19:49:24.431303+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:52.257903
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ZIRPOLI, District Judge,
concurring:
I must accept the Supreme Court’s ruling “that political gerrymandering cases may properly be justiciable under the Equal Protection Clause.” Davis v. Bandemer, 478 U.S. 109, 106 S.Ct. 2797, 92 L.Ed.2d 85 (1986). Nevertheless, the factors that motivated gerrymandering in the present case are no more reprehensible than those found in Bandemer1 and do not constitute a threshold showing of discriminatory vote dilution required for a prima facie case of equal protection violation.

. “Mr. Sussman: What were the political factors?
"Mr. Dailey: We wanted to save as many incumbent Republicans as possible.” Bandemer, 106 S.Ct. at 2802, n. 5.