Smiley v. Holm

Smiley v. Holm
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 16–17, 1932 Decided April 11, 1932
Full case name	W. Yale Smiley v. Holm, as Secretary of State of Minnesota
Citations	285 U.S. 355 (more)
Holding
The U.S. Constitution does not forbid a governor from vetoing a redistricting proposal passed by the state legislature. Minnesota Supreme Court decision reversed.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Benjamin N. Cardozo
Case opinion
Majority	Hughes, joined by unanimous
Cardozo took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. I, § 4, cl. 1

Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355 (1932), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States involving a governor's power to veto a congressional redistricting proposal passed by a state's legislature. In an opinion by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Court unanimously held that the U.S. Constitution did not prohibit Minnesota's governor from vetoing that state's redistricting map.