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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Cooper v. Harris
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___ U.S. ____, 137 S.Ct. 1455, 197 L.Ed.2d 837 (2017).Facts
After the 2010 Census, the North Carolina state legislature appointed House and Senate Committees to prepare a redistricting plan for U.S. House of Representatives districts. The heads of the committees publicly stated that according to the requirements of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, districts must be constructed to have a “Black Voting Age Population” (BVAP) of 50% plus one. To comply with this criterion, two districts were re-drawn to have a BVAP over 50%. This resulted in the creation of two more majority-black districts than there were under the previous congressional districting plan. Two U.S. citizens registered to vote in the two districts at issue. They sued and argued that the Voting Rights Act’s requirements was merely a pretext to place more black voters in the two new majority-black districts, in order to reduce black voters’ influence in other districts.
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