Seamon v. Upham

OPINION

SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Since the Supreme Court’s 1962 decision in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962), federal courts have found themselves undesirably in the center of the “political thicket” of congressional and legislative apportionment. This Court finds itself in just such a position.

The first called session of the 67th Legislature of Texas enacted Senate Bill No. 1 (S.B. 1), which apportioned Texas into twenty-seven single-member congressional districts, on August 10, 1981. The enactment was signed by the Governor of Texas on August 14, 1981.…