Cahill v. Leopold

I am unable to agree with the majority of the court either in their conclusion that the “completion” of the seventeenth census occurred prior to the opening of the 1951 session of the General Assembly or in their conclusion that the thirty-first amendment precludes redistricting by any session of the General Assembly except the one next after the completion of a census.

The thirty-first amendment provides that the senatorial districts, after they are once established, “shall not be altered, nor the number of senators altered, except at a session of the general assembly next after the…