gerrymander

On Monday the Court stopped a racial gerrymander in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 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

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

Would open nonpartisan primaries using ranked voting eliminate some of the incentives to gerrymander?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2022

Soon afterwards it came into possession of Elbridge Gerry, Governor of Massachusetts, and fifth Vice-President of the United States, whose memory and name are kept alive by the term "gerrymander."

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

Justice McAllister did not explicitly find the State Senate or Assembly maps to be unconstitutional gerrymanders.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 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 federal court eventually struck some boundaries down as racial gerrymanders and the Supreme Court affirmed that decision.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018

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

Imagine, then, that rather than drawing Texas into 38 gerrymandered districts, with each holding an election for one representative, Texas instead held one election—statewide—wherein all of its voters chose all of its 38 representatives.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2025

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

Members wrote folk songs and dressed up in costumes as gerrymandered districts to draw attention to the effort.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

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

In Ohio, McKinley lost his seat, partly from the revulsion of feeling, but more because the Democrats, who controlled the State Legislature, had gerrymandered his district against him.

From The New Nation by William E. Dodd

“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

But here’s the confusing part about the Rucho court’s legal treatment of gerrymandering.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 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

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