Court Opinion

ID: 9634181
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 12:54:03.197566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:56.379097
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McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring).
I generally concur in the foregoing Memorandum Opinion, although I see no need for us to “correct” or otherwise explain Reynolds v. State Election Board, 233 F.Supp. 323 (W.D.Okl.1964). At the same time I do agree that the United States Constitution permits consideration of the requirements of a state constitution concerning such factors as compactness, contiguity, historical precedent, and the like, so long as such does not impinge upon the overriding requirement of numerical equality prescribed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964); Swann v. Adams, 385 U.S. 440, 87 S.Ct. 569, 17 L.Ed.2d 501 (1967); and Kirkpatrick v. Preisler, 394 U.S. 526, 89 S.Ct. 1225, 22 L.Ed.2d 519 (1969).