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Abrams Vs. Johnson

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 19, 1997

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  9. U.S. 74 (1997) October Term, 1996 Syllabus Abrams Et Al. V. Johnson
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  10. here a second time, appeal now being taken from the District Court's rulings and determinations on remand after Miller v. Johnson
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  11. unconstitutional. pp.79-101. (a) The trial court did not exceed its remedial power under the general rule of Upham v. Seamon
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  12. Together with No. 95-1460, United States v. Johnson
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  13. A plaintiff seeking to establish such dilution must, inter alia, meet three requirements set forth in Thornburg v. Gingles
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  14. in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise. Beer v. United
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  15. standards in fashioning such a plan, McDaniel v. Sanchez
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  16. ever in effect, and thus none could operate as a benchmark under the Attorney General's regulations and, e. g., Holder v. Hall
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  17. achieve that provision's goal of population equality with little more than de minimis variation, e. g., Chapman v. Meier
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  18. e. g., the desire to respect municipal boundaries and to preserve the cores of prior districts, Karcher v. Daggett
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  19. us a second time, appeal now being taken from the trial court's rulings and determinations after our remand in Miller v. Johnson
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  20. The trial court found this district, too, was improperly drawn under the standards we confirmed in Miller. Johnson v. Miller
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  21. to Georgia's Legislature, but the legislature could not reach agreement. The court then drew its own plan, Johnson v. Miller
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  22. right to equal protection. The private appellants attack the court's plan on five grounds. First, citing Upham v. Seamon
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  23. appellants' argument that the court exceeded the remedial power authorized by our decisions, particularly Upham v. Seamon
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  24. redistricting guideline should be the three majority-black districts of the precleared plan at issue in Miller v. Johnson
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  25. and later the trial court-attempted to draw the districts. A Much of the history is recounted in Miller v. Johnson
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  26. gerrymander in the lines of the Eleventh District, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause as interpreted in Shaw v. Reno
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  27. U. S. 630 (1993). The District Court panel found the district invalid, with one judge dissenting. Johnson v. Miller
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  28. We affirmed. Miller v. Johnson
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  29. one vote. B Given this background, appellants say, the District Court's plan violates our direction in Upham v. Seamon
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  30. plan. In support of their position, appellants rely on broad assertions in the State's brief in this Court in Johnson v. Miller
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  31. Brief for Miller Appellants in Miller v. Johnson
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  32. b). Our decision in Thornburg v. Gingles
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  33. we have since extended the framework to single-member districts. Growe 91 v. Emison
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  34. concluded it was well founded. If race is the predominant motive in creating districts, strict scrutiny applies, Bush v. Vera
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  35. Miller v. Johnson
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  36. Beer v. United
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  37. such that it must be precleared. Connor v. Johnson
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  38. the court by the legislature of a covered jurisdiction in response to a determination of unconstitutionality. McDaniel v. Sanchez
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  39. b)(1) (1996). See also Holder v. Hall
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  40. Reno v. Bossier
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  41. subdivisions alone was not enough to justify less than perfect deviation in a court plan. See, e. g., Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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  42. in Karcher. These equitable considerations disfavor requiring yet another reapportionment to correct the deviation. V The
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  43. is just over 1.7 million, or about 27 percent of a total voting age population of about 6.5 million. See Miller v. Johnson
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  44. District Court, inter alia, drew up a new redistricting plan with one majorityminority district. Johnson v. Miller
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  45. plans. A two-district plan is not unconstitutional. And the District Court here, like the District Court in Upham v. Seamon
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  46. Id., at 41 (quoting White v. Weiser
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  47. After the 1990 Census, which increased the size of Georgia's congressional delegation from 10 to 11, App. in Miller v. Johnson
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  48. ante, at 86 (quoting Brief for Appellants Miller et al. in Miller v. Johnson
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  49. Johnson v. Miller
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  50. p. 16, and likely reflected departmental concern related to Georgia's voting discrimination history. See Busbee v. Smith
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