gerrymander

But that same precedent mostly allowed lawmakers to gerrymander for the purpose of ensuring minority citizens had minority representation corresponding to their share of the population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

Will those who seek to excuse the injustice done to the minority in each electorate by the present system of election seriously contend that the same argument justifies the gerrymander?

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

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

A former civil rights lawyer, Earls previously played a major role challenging North Carolina Republicans’ egregious gerrymanders in court.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 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

For decades, most legal challenges to gerrymandered maps played out in the federal courts, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was often used to challenge unfairly drawn districts.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022

The first Latino supervisor, Gloria Molina, was elected in 1991 after a lawsuit alleging that the supervisors had gerrymandered district lines to keep the growing Latino population from power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Professor Commons states that whenever the periodical rearrangement of constituencies takes place the boundaries are "gerrymandered."

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

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

But in the past, the court also said racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional under the 14th and 15th Amendments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

On Tuesday night, he promised to “work across party lines to find a national solution to the age-old plague of gerrymandering, and in particular, to the more recent affliction of mid-decade gerrymandering.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

He" Lord Burton, "asked why this drastic, this dishonest, this catchpenny, this gerrymandering Bill should have been brought in?....

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893 by Various