Court Opinion

ID: 9429091
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:25:38.026229+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:16.990885
License: Public Domain

Justice Blackmun,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I join Parts I and II of the Court’s opinion, but I dissent from Parts III and IV. My review of the record convinces me that the three-judge District Court’s factual finding that the electoral changes introduced in 1973 had a retrogressive *149effect on the voting rights of Mexican-Americans in the city of Lockhart is not clearly erroneous. I therefore would affirm the judgment of the District Court. At the very least, I would remand the case to that court for it to determine whether the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982, Pub. L. 97-205, 96 Stat. 131, have altered the applicable standard under § 5.