Some Reflections on Baker v. Carr

This article is based on the author\u27s address before the Vanderbilt University School of Law in connection with the school\u27s 1962 Law Day ceremonies. In it, Mr. Katzenbach examines the positions of the various opinions in Baker v. Carr, the significance of the case both for Tennessee and the country as a whole, and the various alternatives open to the district courts for implementing the decision

In the Supreme Court of the United States, October term 1965, no. ... original : State of South Carolina, plaintiff v. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Attorney General for the United States, defendant : motion for leave to file complaint.

This report is the motion for leave to file complaint by the defendant in South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301 (1966), a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach)