The process of passing a legislation is central to maintaining the current justice system working. Providing the basis for legal standards that will be applied to managing legal and civil issues in the U.S. legal setting, the specified changes must focus on the needs of the population and contribute to the increase in people’s safety. Therefore, to ensure that the legislature developed during the next legislative session addresses the needs of the public, it is crucial to build the redistricting strategies that will allow for the maximum representation levels. For this purpose, the principles of compactness, equal population, and racial and ethnic fairness must be adhered to as the cornerstone standards for performing the legislative session properly.
When developing legal standards for a specific setting, authorities must consider the legal issues, obstacles, and problems, in general, faced by the target population. Therefore, it is highly recommended that the legal standards to be established by the corresponding bodies should be based on the principles of racial and ethnic equality. Thus, the said legal standards will meet the main requirements for representation (Edwards, 2017). Additionally, the standards of compactness and equal population should be applied in order to ensure that key groups are represented accordingly in the new regulations to be issued by the state legal bodies. Indeed, given the current low rates of visibility for minority groups, the extent of their representation in the existing legal system leaves much to be desired (Gimpel & Harbridge-Yong, 2020). Therefore, to enhance their visibility and ensure that their need are reflected in the new legal standards, the concepts of compactness and equal population must be followed as the standards for ensuring that all voices are heard.
References
Edwards, B., Crespin, M., Williamson, R. D., & Palmer, M. (2017). Institutional control of redistricting and the geography of representation. The Journal of Politics, 79(2), 722-726. Web.
Gimpel, J. G., & Harbridge-Yong, L. (2020). Conflicting goals of redistricting: do districts that maximize competition reckon with communities of interest? Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 19(4), 451-471. Web.