Court Opinion

ID: 9423648
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:08:37.394494+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:45.329813
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Mr. Justice Stewart,
dissenting.
I would dismiss the writ as improvidently granted for the reasons stated by Mr. Justice Harlan and Mr. Justice Fortas.
*510Since the Court does reach the merits, however, I add that I agree with most of what is said in the thorough dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Fortas. Indeed, I would join that opinion were it not for the author’s unquestioning endorsement of the doctrine of Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533. I continue to believe that the Court’s opinion in that case misapplied the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment — that the apportionment of the legislative body of a sovereign State, no less than the apportionment of a county government, is far too subtle and complicated a business to be resolved as a matter of constitutional law in terms of sixth-grade arithmetic. My views on that score, set out at length elsewhere,* closely parallel those expressed by Mr. Justice Fortas in the present case.

 Lucas v. Colorado General Assembly, 377 U. S. 713, 744 (dissenting opinion).