Cato Institute and Reason Foundation, Amici Curiae
Ilya Shapiro, Counsel of Record
The Cato Institute is a public policy research foundation supporting limited government, individual liberty, and free markets. The Reason Foundation is a nonprofit libertarian think tank. Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of its Supreme Court Review. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 7, 2015. When this Court was asked more than 50 years ago to uphold grossly disproportionate State legislative districts, Alabama argued that States should be allowed to implement a “little Federal system” that would…
