Talk:Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

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Self-Contradiction

• Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission was a 2015 United States Supreme Court case wherein 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

• [...]the Court vacated the decision by the Tenth Circuit and sent it back to the lower court for reconsideration[...]

Which is it? Gamebuster19901 (Talk | Contributions) 01:38, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Why do you think those sentences contradict each other? The second sentence is referring to a later decision. postdlf (talk) 02:03, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

As Postdlf says, it's two different cases; the court first decided the Arizona case, affirming it; and then vacated the Colorado case, ordering the lower court to take another look at it in light of the Arizona case. In any case, I've reworded that portion to make it more clear.

I'll also add that, even if it were the same case, there's no inherent contradiction in a court upholding a right of a party by vacating or reversing a judgment of a lower court. If the three-judge district court had held that the voters did not have the authority to draw districts, and the Supreme Court were to hold that the lower court was wrong, you'd have the court upholding the right of the voters by vacating or reversing the lower court. That wasn't the facts here (the district court sided with the voters, and the Supreme Court agreed with the district court), but it could well have gone that way. TJRC (talk) 22:57, 29 January 2016 (UTC)