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From the Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary Second Session on S. 53, S. 1761, S. 1975 S. 1992, and H.R. 3112 Bills to Amend the Voting Rights Act.

LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorney
- Leslie J. Winner
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Gingles
Case
- Thornburg v. Gingles
U.S. state
- North Carolina
Collection
- Case Files
Creator
- Lani Guinier
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- f99b664a-e192-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Legal Research on Appendix F, 1982. f99b664a-e192-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/fa5873c7-c2d9-416a-a5b1-bd2b1fdf067a/legal-research-on-appendix-f. Accessed July 03, 2025.

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conrouniti.s leex not the b€3t rcpreacntltlve but the
best r.cial or rcligiou! parti3an. Since t}llt rystcD
1r at uar vith the detpcratl.c idcal, it rhould find Do

footing herc. 376 U. 6. 52, 6G-5?..

IlL !t 88 n. 10. fbe cncoursge&ent of .j,ngle-3hot votlng
along raeiaL lincr la Jurt !5 fepa.tirt a" cre.tolal rcgisterr
and gerrynandcrs, .[aJnd rurcly therc lr no n.tional intercat
ln creatlng an lnccntlvc to dcfine po).iticaI groups by

racirl charactcrittic6.. (Stevens, J., coneurring in the

Judgrocnt) . Id. rt 88.

APPEI{DII F

The lttorney G€DcraI,l rnd the courtt. eoDtinued prG3uEption

of ttle cxirtence of racial bloc voting tcnda .to prclervG

tr.ditlonll rrauDptions about group! rlthcr thar thoughtful
scrutiny of individualr.r to3 Anocler Dcp,t of fatc! and

Power v. llanhard, a35 U. S. ?02, 709 (19?g). Th. cntire
prcoccupltion wlth the conccpt of racial bloc votlng, rhcther
in itE h)rpotheEir, proof , rcE atying, or reinforcctEtnt, 

'ccDa
to go wide of.the mark ln the context of the right lought to

tbc protected. when thc courts filrt .ddrctrcdt voting light!
tlrc tocue vlr oD individual. votcr y€j.ght. .Thc rightB
rllcgcdly inpaircd rre individual end peraonal ln naturc.'
n vnold. v. Sirus, 377 U. S. 533, 56f (196a). ScG.lro South

v. Petcrt, 339 U. S. 275, 2!0 (1950) (Douglas, ,]., dirrentlDg).
Protcctlon of the individual viotc rppcalr to hlvc bccn the

In RotE, thcrc yas no cvidtence that voting alongracial ]1rfg-"regu1ar1y happens', Onited Jer-ish Organizations,v. crrgy, 430 U. s. taa, to6, (197rl-;6; 6at anI-ftouD uag-fenceo out of the poriticar proccar anc their v6ting itrengt},invidiously ni.ni.mized,' Gaffner- v. cunn]3gg- ffi -u.'sl-iill
754 (]973). Indeed the c5iES uas trfffu rppcn-:.x i.'?he prcsurrption cngaged in by the dictri6t eolEt in ci.tv ornome v. Unitcd Btarcr, a7Z t. Supp. 221 , Zt7, .oniififfi"-ElpErErE-EiTrEfr, t-6 the reatitilr i-coenizia uy ori.i--Jurtlcc Burgcr ln Unj.tcd Jesish oroanizsi.ion *-t"ilil-.,rp.,a'- i8; (Burgcr, c.T. i-EriEEi'Eini',-1-E-d-rr Gprrotnrzes the'guestionablcIneas)' of th€ ecsuiption ar retogni.z"- Uft-fr.Chi€f Justice rnd Julticc El,ackrun. 6ce Connoi v. frnlfr,{31 u. 6. aO7, 127 a. 2 (197?) (Burgci-, cl-E-anfslffi,_.,J. conculllng in part and coocurrini in thc Judgnen;t: 

--rh;
finding frll,3 to recognize end rcs$ct t}le r6al.ities ofgroupr of votcr: and.their votiDg inclinatj.ons pc=ceivia byI,lr. Ju6ticc Et?vens ln Ci tv of t{obi }e. See 116 L.. S. SS , Ai .(S'-cvenc, Jr,, concurrril!-in-the fudgn€;EI

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