American Civil Rights Union, Amicus Curiae
Kaylan L. Phillips, Counsel of Record
The American Civil Rights Union is a nonpartisan legal policy organization dedicated to defending all constitutional rights. Kaylan L. Phillips is chief litigation counsel for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, where she focuses on constitutional, civil rights, and election law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 5, 2015. The present case raises the critical but still unsettled constitutional issue of whether the one-person, one-vote principle protects the rights of voters to an equal vote, or whether election districts may be drawn to artificially award political power…
