United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Malcolm Wilson, Governor of the State of New York, N.A.A.C.P., Intervenors-Appellees

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal brings us close to full circle in respect to reapportionment — all the way back from Baker v. Carr almost to Colegrove v. Green. It poses the subtle question whether a federal court should interfere to invalidate on fourteenth or fifteenth amendment grounds a state legislative districting plan for two counties specifically drawn to ensure nonwhite voters a “viable majority” or a “realistic opportunity for minorities to elect a candidate of their choice”1 in state senatorial and assembly districts. The question is made no less complex by virtue of its being…