Baker V. Carr Case Study

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Baker v. Carr (1962) set historical precedent when the Supreme Court decided that they had the right to review redistribution issues, thereby granting such cases justiciability. This comes after the Court had refused to intervene in appointment cases in Colegrove v. Green (1946) under the rationale that Article I, section IV of the U.S. Constitution allowed only Congress to do so. A conflict that arose when the Court took this case was whether Tennessee’s redistribution held political questions, which would make the case unjustifiable. Brennan explained that this wasn’t the case, citing previous cases in which the Court had intervened to correct constitutional violations at the state level. Brennan furthered that the equal protection clause,

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