[EL] More on Freedom to Vote Act (Title V: Nonpartisan Redistricting Reform)

[Chin, Andrew]

Many thanks to Rick Hasen yesterday for thinking through the 7% partisan bias threshold, which effectively repeals Gill and rehabilitates the efficiency gap, which the trial court had endorsed. Perhaps less explicitly, Title V also repeals Rucho. As a member of Jonathan Mattingly's Quantifying Gerrymandering group, my attention went directly to Sec. 5003, which enshrines computer-sampled ensembles as the baselines for measuring effects, and Sec. 5006 which provides private rights of action in federal court for violations. In effect, this repeals Rucho and restores the trial court's decision and analysis of the statistical evidence presented by Mattingly and Jowei Chen.

If you'll excuse the self-plug, Mattingly, Gregory Herschlag and I wrote a 2019 article<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3477091> explaining the statistical evidence for a legal audience. More recent<https://www.yalelawjournal.org/author/moon-duchin> papers<https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/1ds8ptxu/release/4> by Moon Duchin, Daryl DeFord et al. give the current lay of the rapidly evolving landscape of computer-sampled ensembles for partisan gerrymandering litigation.

Andrew


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Andrew Chin
Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina School of Law
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
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