18. The Supreme Court restricted its decision
to questions of:
Standing Jurisdiction
Justiciability
19. Standing: Did Baker and the other plaintiffs have
standing (the right) to bring a suit of this kind before
the Court?
20.
21. Justiciability: Is it appropriate for the judicial
branch to hear and decide this case or should it
be left to the executive or legislative branch?
22. “…it is a responsibility of this Court as
ultimate interpreter of the Constitution.”
-Justice Brennan
23.
24.
25. By the end of the decade
the political landscape of
the United States was
radically altered.
26.
27. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WILLIAM
DOUGLAS
“Voting rights have long had the
protection of federal courts.”
28. Considered
Tennessee’s
original
apportionment
“a crazy quilt
without
rational basis.”
Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark
29. He emphasized that the Court had to
determine
Jurisdiction, Justiciability, and
Standing.
30. Supreme Court Justice John M Harlan
He set out to prove the inadequacy of
arithmetic formulas as measures of the
“irrational rationality” of Tennessee’s
apportionment.
31. Justice
Justice Clark’s Harlan’s
County Population formula Formula
Van Buren 2,039 .63 .23
Moore 2,340 2.00 1.23
Pickett 2,565 .70 .22
Sequatchie 2,909 .63 .33
Meigs 3,039 .93 .48
Houston 3,084 1.25 .46
Trousdale 3,351 1.33 .43
Lewis 3,413 1.25 .39
Perry 3,711 1.50 .71
Bledsoe 4,198 .63 .49
Clay 4,528 .70 .40
Union 4,600 .76 .37
Hancock 4,710 .93 .62
32. 5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
0
Carter
Maury
Washington
Madison
Grundy
Chester
Cumberland
Crockett
Loudon
Fayette
Population
Representation
33. Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter
Wrote Colegrove v. Green and questioned the
commission or competence of Supreme Court
Justices to decide apportionment cases.
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