Chase v. Lujan

Mr. Justice THREET and I are unable to join in the majority opinion for the reasons hereinafter to be shown.

All rules of statutory construction, including those our own court has so often emphasized, we believe have been thrust aside in appraising the constitutional language “in which he offers to vote.” The majority opinion concedes that the “great weight” of present authority is against its holding. We go further and say that not one case decided since the time of the Civil War period will support it. We call to our aid the supreme importance of the question and the minority’s very grave…