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Hi and welcome to Amicus Slate's podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court.

I am Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Supreme Court correspondent, and this week the court heard,

you may have heard about it, some big cases.

Among them, Fisher v. University of Texas, that was the big affirmative action challenge that we discussed last episode.

We're going to talk a little bit later in the show about the Fisher case, but this week we wanted to focus the show principally on a voting rights case, Evanwell v. Abbott, also coming out of Texas that was argued Tuesday at the court.

I should just flag for you because it's interesting that both Fisher and the

Evanwell case were brought by the same group, the Project on Fair Representation,

headed up by Edward Blum in Texas.

He actually doesn't talk to broadcast media all that much,

and so we've brought someone else who is closely involved in the case onto the show,

but a really fascinating week to see what a tiny legal project can do

when they want to have a big, big impact at the court.

So let's turn for a minute to the voting rights

case, Evan Well v. Abbott. And in its simplest terms, this is a challenge to the, quote,

one person one vote principle that has long held that states, and please remember this case is

about state apportionment, not the House of Representatives, but states draw their legislative districts using voters to count the size of the district.

Now, the challengers in Evanwell want to count voters, not population, because they're concerned that the census tends to overcount all sorts of people like children disenfranchised felons, aliens, and that for the purpose of

counting districts, counting all those non-voters delutes their vote. Here to help us understand the case

that I may have made sound very complicated is Andrew Grossman. He practices appellate and

constitutional litigation in the D.C. offices of Baker Hostetler.

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