exercise by elected officials in the cities, towns, and counties." In dissent, Justice John Marshall Harlan II asserted that the Writ of Certiorari to the Texas Supreme Court was improvidently granted in that the decision was not final, since the Texas court had ordered the County to redistrict. He also resumed his objections to the line of cases started with Reynolds v. Sims saying, "I continue to think that these adventures of the Court in the realm of political science are beyond its constitutional powers, for reasons set forth at length in my dissenting opinion in Reynolds, 377 U.S., at 589 et seq." Justices Fortas and Stewart agreed with Justice Harlan that the Writ of Certiorari was improvidently granted as the decision was not yet final, but disagreed as to their reasoning on the merits of the case. Justice Thurgood Marshall took no part in the deliberation of the case. See also Rotten and pocket boroughs, an English phenomenon List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 390 One Person, One Vote References External links United States electoral redistricting case law United States One Person, One Vote Legal Doctrine United States equal protection case law United States Supreme Court cases 1968 in United States case law Midland County, Texas United States Supreme Court cases of the Warren Court