In Re Apportionment of State Legislature

The people, in adopting the 1963 State Constitution, provided the procedure to carry out legislative reapportionment.1 However, for the second time in eight years the Court has had thrust upon it a proceeding which historically has been a legislative rather than a judicial one.

The activities of the political parties during the 1964 Commission on Legislative Apportionment, and the political shenanigans of both political parties making up the Commission this year, as brought out in oral argument before this Court, convinced a majority of the Court that it would be futile to remand this cause to…