Supreme Court watch: The new kid tries to show off again. It doesn't go well.

JUSTICE GORSUCH: For that matter, maybe we can just for a second talk about the arcane matter, the Constitution.

And where exactly do we get authority to revise state legislative lines? When -­ when the Constitution authorizes the federal government to step in on state -- state legislative matters, it's pretty clear. If you look at the Fifteenth Amendment, you look at the Nineteenth Amendment, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and even the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2, says Congress has the power, when state legislators don't provide the right to vote equally, to dilute congressional representation. Aren't those all textual indications in the Constitution itself that maybe we ought to be cautious about stepping in here?

MR. SMITH: Well, I don't think there's anything unusual about using the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to regulate the abusive management of state elections by state government. That's what the Court has been doing.

JUSTICE GINSBURG: Where did one-person/one-vote come from?

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