JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Adjudged to be AFFIRMED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 16, 2013.

Reply of appellant The Standing Joint Legislative Committee on Reapportionment of the Mississippi Legislature, Appellant filed. (Distributed)

Waiver of right of appellees Mississippi State Senate Democratic Caucus and State Democratic Senators to respond filed.

Motion to dismiss or affirm filed by appellees Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al.

Waiver of right of appellee Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann to respond filed.

Waiver of right of appellee Jim Hood, Attorney General of Mississippi to respond filed.

Waiver of right of appellee Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi to respond filed.

Waiver of right of appellee Mississippi Republican Executive Committee to respond filed.

Statement as to jurisdiction filed. (Response due April 17, 2013)

Jim Hood, Attorney General of Mississippi, Appellant, represented by Harold Edward Pizzetta III.

Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, Appellant, represented by Michael B. Wallace

Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, Appellant, represented by William Trey Jones III.

Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al., Appellant, represented by Carroll Rhodes

Mississippi State Senate Democratic Caucus and State Democratic Senators, Appellant, represented by John Frederick Hawkins

Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, Appellant, represented by Jack L. Wilson

The Standing Joint Legislative Committee on Reapportionment of the Mississippi Legislature, Appellant, Appellant, represented by Tommie S. Cardin