New Democratic Coalition v. Secretary of State

Plaintiffs have urged this Court to order that all state senators stand for election in the primary and general elections of 1972, and to declare that Const 1963, art 4, § 2 and the statutes tied to it are unconstitutional insofar as they conflict with that order. Plaintiffs further urged this Court to order that those primary and general elections be carried out in the new state senate districts declared in effect by the Michigan Supreme Court on May 4, 1972.

Plaintiffs’ first argument was that the incumbent state senators were elected from 1964 apportionment districts which were not…