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Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) issued the following statement today (29 May 2015):
Like many Californians, I am deeply concerned by the inexplicable decision of the United States Supreme Court to hear a challenge brought by right-wing activists in Texas to the longstanding democratic principle of “one person, one vote.”
Since it was first affirmed 51 years ago by Chief Justice Earl Warren’s Supreme Court, “one person, one vote” has been a widely articulated and consistently upheld tenet of our nation’s Constitution.
Before that time, political districts across the nation were arbitrary and imbalanced – and millions were underrepresented. Los Angeles County and its 6 million people, for example, had the equivalent voting power in our State Senate as a rural district with barely 14,000 people.
This challenge now is nothing more than a cynical and transparent effort to turn back the clock on decades of legal precedent and return an unjust, unequal system of redistricting that could greatly disadvantage diverse and urban communities and deprive millions of American residents, many of whom are either Latino or Asian, of political representation.