Committee to Recall Menendez v. Wells

*132Justices RIVERA-SOTO and HOENS,

dissenting.

“No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.” Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 17, 84 S.Ct. 526, 535, 11 L.Ed.2d 481, 492 (1964). “[T]he right to vote is inherent in the republican form of government envisaged by ... the Constitution. The House—and now the Senate—are chosen by the people.”10 Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 242, 82 S.Ct. 691, 723, 7 L.Ed.2d…