United States Et Al. v. Mississippi; And Henry Et Al. v. Mississippi

In 1965, a three-judge District Court was convened in Mississippi to deal with allegations of malapportionment in Mississippi’s State Legislature. By 1975, an acceptable reapportionment plan still had not been formulated; nevertheless, quadrennial elections were held under a court-ordered plan.1 In 1978, the Mississippi Legislature enacted a statutory reapportionment plan, which was submitted to the Attorney General of the United States for preclearance under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 79 Stat. 437, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 1973 et seq. When the Attorney General objected to the plan, the…