Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 2, 2015 Decided June 29, 2015
Full case name	Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, et al.
Docket no.	13-1314
Citations	576 U.S. 787 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2652; 192 L. Ed. 2d 704
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	997 F. Supp. 2d 1047 (D. Ariz. 2014)
Holding
(1) Petitioners have standing; (2) The Elections Clause of the United States Constitution and 2 U.S.C. §2a(c) permit Arizona’s use of a commission to adopt congressional districts.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Dissent	Roberts, joined by Scalia, Thomas, Alito
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Thomas
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Scalia
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. I, § 4, cl. 1 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c)

Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, 576 U.S. 787 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case where the Court upheld the right of Arizona voters to remove the authority to draw election districts from the Arizona State Legislature and vest it in an independent redistricting commission.^[1] In doing so, the Court expressly rejected a nascent version of the independent state legislature theory.