As a Princeton undergraduate, Samuel Alito sided with Tennessee and Alabama in the reapportionment cases.

If Judge Alito was able to forge a conservative Supreme Court majority to overturn the reapportionment cases, the results would be disastrous.

Whatever the chances of overturning the reapportionment cases, the Senate should ask Judge Alito what he so disliked about them.

The Court had set aside a week to hear nothing but reapportionment cases, and Sand was the first litigator to argue that week.

In the 1960s, the Supreme Court issued a series of decisions for the collective set of cases known as the "reapportionment cases".

In his testimony before the Judiciary Committee last week, Judge Bork maintained his criticism of the reapportionment cases.

You know what Judge Bork would say: "Listen: I approve of the results of the reapportionment cases.

Andrew Young Mayor of Atlanta We still have a number of reapportionment cases.

The reapportionment cases established the one-person-one-vote doctrine, which requires that Congressional and legislative districts include roughly equal numbers of people.

Nonetheless, I would suggest that the fact that the reapportionment cases should appear on a job application in the 1980's is at least a curiosity.