[EL] symmetry really got short shrift in Rucho

[Levitt, Justin]

A vote for willful misrepresentation.  Claiming “the Constitution doesn’t require proportionality” is a handy strawman.

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
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Subject: [EL] symmetry really got short shrift in Rucho

It is like a reprise of the Gill oral argument and sociological gobbledygook: does the Chief Justice not understand the difference between proportional representation arguments and symmetry arguments, or did he just willfully misrepresent the position of many of the plaintiffs? They couldn’t have made it clearer.


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