{"id":8817,"date":"2016-04-04T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/supreme-court-rejects-radical-re-write-of-constitution-in-evenwel-redistricting-case-9\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:11:00","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-radical-re-write-of-constitution-in-evenwel-redistricting-case-9","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/press\/supreme-court-rejects-radical-re-write-of-constitution-in-evenwel-redistricting-case-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Oberster Gerichtshof lehnt radikale \u00dcberarbeitung der Verfassung im Fall der Neugliederung der Wahlbezirke in Evenwel ab"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8817","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today the U.S. Supreme Court voted 8-0 in Evenwel v. Abbott to allow states to continue to count total population when drawing state legislative districts after each census. The plaintiffs sought an unprecedented change to the U.S. Constitution forbidding states from using census counts of total population and requiring them to draw districts with equal number of voters. Salt Lake City joined 18 other counties and cities across the country to oppose this change.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8810}"],"related_issues":[103,148,169,2051,2066],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Heute ist der Oberste Gerichtshof der USA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/15pdf\/14-940_ed9g.pdf\">stimmte mit 8:0 in <em>Evenwel gegen Abbott<\/em><\/a> to allow states to continue to count total population when drawing state legislative districts after each census. The plaintiffs sought an unprecedented change to the U.S. Constitution forbidding states from using census counts of total population and requiring them to draw districts with equal number of voters. Salt Lake City joined 18 other counties and cities across the country to oppose this change.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s decision affirms one of America&rsquo;s most fundamental values: that every person counts,&rdquo; said Common Cause President Miles Rapoport. &nbsp;&ldquo;A ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would have made millions of young people, non-citizen residents, and other non-voters invisible in our state legislatures. Our Constitution begins with the words &lsquo;We the people;&rsquo; the court has declared today that that means everyone -- not just those who vote &ndash; is entitled to equal representation at every level of government.&rdquo;<\/p><p>H\u00e4tten die Kl\u00e4ger Erfolg gehabt, h\u00e4tte eine bundesweite Vorschrift, bei der Neugliederung der Wahlbezirke nur die W\u00e4hler zu z\u00e4hlen, dazu gef\u00fchrt, dass Gemeinden mit einem hohen Anteil an Nichtw\u00e4hlern \u2013 wie etwa jungen Einwohnern und Nichtstaatsb\u00fcrgern \u2013 in den Parlamenten der Bundesstaaten stark unterrepr\u00e4sentiert gewesen w\u00e4ren.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Common Cause joined cities and counties across the country &ndash; from Los Angeles, CA to Salt Lake City, UT to Trenton, NJ &ndash; to argue that everyone, whether young or old, city-dweller or small town resident, deserves equal representation when it comes to providing police, fire, schools, and other services,&rdquo; said Common Cause National Redistricting Director Kathay Feng. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t deny police or fire protection to children because they are not registered to vote, so why would we deny fair representation in the Utah State Legislature based on who is registered and who is not?&rdquo;<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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