AP reports. From my earlier coverage:
Louisiana Files Original Suit in SCOTUS Claiming Illegals Should Not Count for Apportionment Purposes
Posted on November 16, 2011 1:16 pm by Rick Hasen
Lyle Denniston reports for SCOTUSBlog on this new petition. Justin Levitt: “New LA
#redistricting suit (http://redistricting.lls.edu/cases.php) will lose, and lose badly, for lots of different reasons.”How appealing will be an argument to a bunch of originalists/textualists that the term “persons” in the Constitution does not include all people, and in fact excludes non-legal residents?