Ball v. James

Justice White,

with whom Justice Brennan, Justice Marshall, and Justice Blackmun join, dissenting.

In concluding that the District’s “one-acre, one-vote” scheme is constitutional, the Court misapplies the limited exception recognized in Salyer Land Co. v. Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District, 410 U. S. 719 (1973), on the strained logic that the provision of water and electricity to several hundred thousand citizens is a “peculiarly narrow function.” Because the Court misreads our prior cases and its opinion is conceptually unsound, I dissent.

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The right to vote is of special importance…