Supreme Court Rules Legislative Districts Unconstitutional

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Legislative candidates will have to run in decade-old districts in this year's elections. Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton issued a unanimous ruling Friday afternoon stating that newly drawn legislative districts are "facially unconstitutional" and that lawmakers will have to operate under the old districts until more balanced boundaries are drawn. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled earlier this month that newly drawn legislative districts are out of balance and must be redrawn to comply with the "one person, one vote" mandate in federal and state law. The Supreme Court upheld Shepherd's ruling.