The Yale Law Journal

David L. Epstein

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The Paradox of Retrogression in the New VRA: Comment on Persily

David L. Epstein & Sharyn O’Halloran

The Court ruled in Georgia v. Ashcroft that states, when redistricting, could try to increase “substantive representation”—the degree of influence that minority voters have on policy outcomes—even at a possible cost to “descriptive representation”—the number of minority candidates elec…