Baker v. Clement

This case presents the question of whether the statute creating Tennessee’s nine congressional districts violates Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States.

This statute, Chapter 4, Public Acts of the Extraordinary Session of 1965, T. C.A. § 2-502 (1965 Supp.), 1 amended the existing code section bearing the same number, which was codified from Chapter 251, Public Acts of 1951. By its terms the 1965 amendment will apply to the primary election of August 1966 and the general election of November 1966. The incumbent members of Congress from Tennessee will continue to…