1964, Reapportionment Forces Rejoice, Fight Not Over
Back in 1964, in Oklahoma these headlines showed up in Lawton, Constitution, out of Lawton, Oklahoma, dated 20 January 1964, Monday, on the front page: "Reapportionment Forces Rejoice, Fight Not Over.
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Oklahoma City (UPI) -- Reapportionment forces rejoiced that a three judge federal court had upheld its July, 1963, order districting the Oklahoma Legislature on population.
The court refused to stay its July order. If it had done so, it would have permitted a state supreme court plan to take effect. The latter places more emphasis on area.
Mrs. Trimble Latting of Oklahoma City, legislative chairman of the Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers, said, "I am pleased. Certainly not giving a stay is fine because the federal district court order gives Oklahoma fair and equitable representation, and none of these others do."
Another reapportionment booster, attorney Norman Reynolds, said, "We are, of course, pleased. There is only one remaining hurdle before we have finally obtained the goal of fair and equitable representation in Oklahoma for the next two years."
"We anticipate that they (opponents) will go to the U. S. Supreme Court for a stay," Reynolds said, "We are notifying the state senators, Atty-Gen. Charles Nesbitt and the rest of the opposition and the clerk of the U. S. Supreme Court that we desire to be heard if such an application is presented."
Jim Rinehart, El Reno attorney representing 22 state senators, said he hoped to file an application with the U. S. Supreme Court this week asking a stay of the three-judge court's order.
Nesbitt and Frank Carter of Enid, attorney for the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, also said they would file motions for stays.
"I am preparing a motion for a stay to be filed in the U. S. Supreme Court as soon as possible," Nesbit said.
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