re: #215 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
The 8-0 is still surprising. Isn’t Justice Thomas pretty much required to dissent as a matter of course from any SCOTUS decision?
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Thomas and Alito wrote concurring opinions. But it shouldn’t be surprising, the result should have been obvious from the beginning.
Even if a state tries to reapportion based on actual voters rather than total population, it’ll probably be struck down. If only because of the very obvious issue that over a ten year period (census to census), people who weren’t eligible to vote at the beginning end up being eligible at the end (either by turning 18 or becoming naturalized). Besides I’m not sure many states would actually invite the inevitable litigation