Rodriguez v. Harris County’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[V]oting rights cases could be defeated at the outset by the very barriers to political participation that Congress sought to remove: legislative bodies could evade compliance with the Voting Rights Act by carefully selecting an array of redistricting principles such that it would be difficult for a plaintiff to draw a demonstration map that would both differ from the defendant's map and yet still comply with each of the defendant's redistricting principles. Surely, Congress did not intend for the broad remedial scope of Section 2 to be so easily evaded by a defendants' selection of redistricting principles. The scope of the statute must be construed to avoid this anomalous result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Luna v. Cnty. of Kern

2. “The notion of political cohesiveness contemplates that a specified group of voters shares common beliefs, ideals, principles, agendas, concerns, and the like such that they generally unite behind or coalesce around particular candidates and issues.... The term racially polarized voting, on the other hand, describes an electorate in which white voters favor and vote for certain candidates or propositions, and minority voters vote for other candidates or propositions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Hall v. Louisiana

3. “exists where there is a consistent relationship between [the] race of the voter and the way in which the voter votes, or to put it differently, where black voters and white voters vote differently”) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). . Burden, D.E. 391-1, p. 13 (report); Burden, D.E. 569, p. 307 (testimony). . See, e.g., LULAC, 548 U.S. at 427 , 126 S.Ct. 2594 (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 71 F. Supp. 3d 627 - Veasey v. Perry