Legal Opinion
Johnson v. De Grandy
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 30, 1994No. 92-519PublishedCited by 1,054 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
These consolidated cases are about the meaning of vote dilution and the facts required to show it, when §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is applied to challenges to single-member legislative districts. See 79 Stat. 437, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 1973. We hold that no violation of § 2 can be found here, where, in spite of continuing discrimination and racial bloc voting, minority voters form effective voting majorities in a number of districts roughly proportional to the minority voters’ respective shares in the voting-age population. While such proportionality is not dispositive in a…
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