gerrymander

Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion gives a detailed history of Section 2 and a tour of the Court’s messy racial gerrymander jurisprudence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

For his part, Graves said he never believed his map was an illegal racial gerrymander, as Garcia’s lawsuit asserts.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

Manning, who currently represents the 6th District, said last week that she would change her mind and run again for Congress should litigation alleging the retooled 6th District is an illegal racial gerrymander is successful.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

The infamous discussion between three council members and a labor leader focused, after all, on how best to gerrymander the politicians’ districts to benefit them and their Latino allies and hurt their rival colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

The word "gerrymander" has found its way into English journalism.

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by John H. Humphreys

But eliminating racial gerrymanders has made some districts in both states more competitive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice is holding dozens of seminars across eight states that include how to identify gerrymanders using mapping software, said Jeff Loperfido, the group's senior counsel.

From Reuters ● Aug. 13, 2021

A federal court eventually struck some boundaries down as racial gerrymanders and the Supreme Court affirmed that decision.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018

The group has also joined lawsuits claiming racial gerrymanders of House districts in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, and is mounting grass-roots efforts to enact electoral reforms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2018

A striking instance of this is furnished by the power to nullify legislative gerrymanders.

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

He has gerrymandered the boundaries of confidentiality to sidestep established ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

The Reichstag, or national parliament, was grossly gerrymandered in favor of the upper classes, and the government was not responsible to its lawmakers, but rather to a capricious monarch.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

In two separate cases, Earls and Riggs succeeded in getting courts to strike down gerrymandered election districts in their state.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2024

Even McKinley, who earlier had been gerrymandered into victory, lost his seat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

Is there any evidence that your state is "gerrymandered"?

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner

“When you’re gerrymandering, you’re making a bet that you know what the politics of the future will look like, and it’s hard to predict,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

It wouldn’t be the first time that legislators have played hardball to work around restrictions on gerrymandering.

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

Because in a world in which there’s some constraint on political gerrymandering, it’s not unreasonable for folks to think, Well, let’s really put some teeth into that constraint in our state.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

If we want durable protection for the rights of all voters and durable constraints on racial gerrymandering, we need an act of Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

For years North and South Carolina each sent at least one negro member to the House of Representatives and, but for flagrant gerrymandering, might have sent more.

From The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson