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The Supreme Court was hearing a redistricting case. The Georgia legislature and voted to approve a map showing the new districts. Some of the districts were so torturously drawn, that two non-contiguous areas were put in the same district and connected by an area in between that was so thin, it only included a state highway and its right of way where there were of course no voters. Justice O’Conner and other justices thought the map itself was sufficient grounds to reject the redistricting plan, though there was much other evidence as well.


Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
  • Born: September 18, 1709
  • Died: December 13, 1784
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Moralist, Literary Critic, Biographer, Editor, Lexicographer

Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".