[EL] Law-election Digest, Vol 84, Issue 7

[George Scoville]

Just a bit of related content:  our journal's Lead Article this year was
Steve Semeraro's (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) *Partisan Gerrymandering:
Is There No Shame in It or Have Politicians Become Shameless?*, in which
he "proposes an objective, administrable standard for proving a partisan
gerrymandering case and an administrable remedy that would resolve cases
quickly without enmeshing the courts in line-drawing exercises . . . [and]
concludes by describing remedies courts could fashion to provide relief
when concluding that an electoral map fails the proposed test."

Permanent link:
http://www.memphis.edu/law/documents/semeraro-partisan-gerrymandering.pdf

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 2:00 PM, <
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> Dear colleagues in election law,
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> The Supreme Court seems to be at loggerheads in establishing a standard to
> govern partisan gerrymandering. A sticking point appears to be the
> proliferation of legal theories and mathematical tests. Brian Remlinger and
> I have posted a review that we hope will address the situation:
> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3158123
>
> The many tests may seem intimidating, perhaps to the point of being
> "gobbledygook," as Chief Justice Roberts so memorably put it. However, even
> though the tests each use different math, conceptually they fall into two
> major categories: (1) tests of unequal opportunity, and (2) tests of
> durable partisan outcome. Looking at them in this way brings order to an
> otherwise-unwieldy toolkit for a judge's use.
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> We are eager to disseminate this broadly. I don't know if it will be in
> time for Whitford, Benisek, and Rucho, but we thought we might send this to
> an online law review. Any advice, comments, or feedback would be welcome.
> Feel free to email me directly.
>
> All the best,
> Sam
>
> Prof. Samuel Wang
> The Princeton Gerrymandering Project
> (and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute)
> Princeton University
> Princeton, NJ 08540
> Email: sswang at princeton.edu<mailto:sswang at princeton.edu>
> Web: gerrymander.princeton.edu<http://gerrymander.princeton.edu>
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