Legal Opinion
Lavergne v. U.S. House of Representatives
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 11, 2019No. Civil Action No. 17-793 (CKK-CP-RDM)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CORNELIA T.L. PILLARD, United States Court of Appeals Judge, COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY and RANDOLPH D. MOSS, United States District Judges *111Plaintiffs have a bold theory. For more than two centuries, our nation has been operating under the following upper and lower bounds on the number of seats Congress may constitutionally authorize in the House of Representatives: "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative." U.S. Const. art. I, § 2, cl. 3. Acting within that range, Congress a century ago settled on 435…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Eugene Lavergne v. United States House of RepresentativesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2021