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

Opponents of the retaliatory gerrymander include former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025

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

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Alabama can’t use its congressional map with only one majority Black district, reasoning it was likely a discriminatory racial gerrymander that runs afoul of the Voting Rights Act.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

Consequently, every apportionment act involves more or less of the gerrymander.

From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Nate Persily, a Stanford Law School professor and expert on election law and democracy, said that any standard for judging partisan gerrymanders has to be above reproach.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Earls, the founder and former executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, had battled Republican gerrymanders in North Carolina for years before winning election to the court in 2018.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

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 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

Former Representative Reid Ribble, a Republican who served northeastern Wisconsin, said, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandered House or State Assembly seats, and there’s some truth to that.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

Counsels less wise and just prevailed, and the united province was "gerrymandered" against Lord Durham's protest.

From George Brown by John Lewis

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

Consider Utah, whose state Supreme Court has faithfully enforced a voter-approved gerrymandering ban.

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

Speaking with a local radio show, he said “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026

Until that happens, the constitutional rules against legislative gerrymandering remain in force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

This trick is called "gerrymandering," from Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, who was vice-president of the United States from 1813 to 1817.

From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by John Fiske