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gerrymander

[jer-i-man-der, ger-] / ˈdʒɛr ɪˌmæn dər, ˈgɛr- /
VERB
to divide into election districts in a politically-motivated way
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On Monday the Court stopped a racial gerrymander in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025

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

When I asked Lewis about this on a 2019 panel at the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, he worked himself into a moral dudgeon over being accused of a racial gerrymander.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2021

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

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

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

The current gerrymander suit was filed long after Earls left the social justice coalition, but while there, she worked on challenges to the state’s gerrymanders with a lawyer in the current case, Allison Riggs.

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

In some states, however, such as Michigan, the gerrymanders have been so heavy-handed and awkward that “those dikes could break,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2018

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

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

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 the meantime, jurors should remember that they each have the independent power to cast a vote that cannot be overridden, overruled, or gerrymandered away.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2022

The judges’ evaluation of whether the maps were gerrymandered was more limited.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

The map they form can at times resemble gerrymandered congressional districts, with it not unusual for neighboring farms to get water from canals that lead to mountains and reservoirs in opposite directions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

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

From George Brown by John Lewis

Yet now, without any justification, the supermajority has imported Callais’ jury-rigged standards into the constitutional rules against racial gerrymandering.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

“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

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

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

The Croats found themselves no match for the astute Magyars who resorted to packed diets, gerrymandering, bribery, and forgery.

From The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Robert Joseph Kerner



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