Preisler v. Kirkpatrick

I respectfully dissent. The principal opinion concludes that Districts 6 and 33 are not compact as required by the Constitution but holds that since in its view the remaining districts are within acceptable limits of compactness, the plan as a whole complies with the compactness requirement established by Art. Ill, § 5, Mo.Const.

I cannot agree with that conclusion. In my view when Art. Ill, .§ 5 says that in establishing the prescribed 34 senatorial districts, “the state shall be divided into convenient districts of contiguous territory, as compact and nearly equal in population as may be,”…