Dissent On Districts 23 & 25
Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas dissented:
- Nowhere in the American Voting Rights Act or legislative history is compactness of districts mentioned and that the majority is causing the jurisprudence of section 2 to diverge more and more from the legislative history.
- New district 25 is more than an adequate replacement for old 23 (if necessarily), and indeed the majority accepts that new district 25 performed better for Latinos in 2004 than old district 23 from 1992—2002.
Read more about this topic: League Of United Latin American Citizens V. Perry
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