Presley v. Etowah County Comm'n, 502 U.S. 491, 36 (1992)

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PRESLEY v. ETOWAH COUNTY COMM'N

Stevens, J., dissenting

implicate the decisionmaking authority of elected officials." Ante, at 509. It does so because it fears that such a rule creates line-drawing problems and moves too far afield from "voting." Whether or not the rationale advocated by the Attorney General in this case is appropriate, his judgment concerning the proper disposition of these two cases is unquestionably correct.

I would therefore reverse in both cases.

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