Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission | |
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Argued March 2, 2015 Decided June 29, 2015 | |
Full case name | Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. |
Docket no. | 13-1314 |
Citations | 576 U.S. 787 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2652; 192 L. Ed. 2d 704 |
Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
Case history | |
Prior | 997 F. Supp. 2d 1047 (D. Ariz. 2014) |
Holding | |
(1) Petitioners have standing; (2) The Elections Clause of the United States Constitution and 2 U.S.C. §2a(c) permit Arizona’s use of a commission to adopt congressional districts. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Ginsburg, joined by Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan |
Dissent | Roberts, joined by Scalia, Thomas, Alito |
Dissent | Scalia, joined by Thomas |
Dissent | Thomas, joined by Scalia |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. art. I, § 4, cl. 1 |
Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, 576 U.S. 787 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case where the Court upheld the right of Arizona voters to remove the authority to draw election districts from the Arizona State Legislature and vest it in an independent redistricting commission.[1] In doing so, the Court expressly rejected a nascent version of the independent state legislature theory.
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