Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing, his ability to take a day of complex events in a courtroom and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was then chairing an elected commission in los angeles
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Preclearance approval. If the expert said the draft map satisfied the Voting Rights act and the only reason to additionally depopulate the district was to achieve a further partisan skew, then that shows that partisanship was a very i understand two of the members said it was not the primary motive, but it certainly was a pervasive motive in the process by which these districts were drawn. Our position is a very narrow one that we ask the court to hold, is that partisanship does not justify deviating from one person, one vote, and that a mistaken belief that preclearance was necessary to underpopulate certain districts also does not justify deviating from one person, one vote. Where is the district in which or the state in which partisanship does not play a role in redistricting . We think partisanship will always play a role. As Justice Scalia noted there is a articulatable standard of one person, one vote. Thats a rule that we can cabin the partisanship. We can partisan and dont faul
Framers of the 14th amendment were actually taking about, you cant get to a lot of these decisions. That is not the way the court has determined to construe the 14th amendment. Thank you for another important episode. I wonder if the timing and the nature of tonights case and others related to it, if it really isnt kind of representing the cleaning up of the failed postcivil war reconstruction business. Im wondering how much time was wasted between then and these cases which occurred. Douglas it is a great question. I think certainly we continue to grapple with these issues today. Certainly, it is a neverending process, one we have to continue to keep working at to figure out how to make our democracy real. Ted it is not just our democracy, but the principles of the declaration of independence, the gettysburg address, the 14th amendment, the concept of equality. We have never been a very perfect country with respect to living up to those ideals, and i think a lot of it is that the just