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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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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

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

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

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

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

From New York Times Mar. 31, 2022

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

For the other implications of the Wisconsin race, especially for the state’s heavily gerrymandered legislative maps, I recommend Reid’s latest article.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2023

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 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

But his prior comments, as well his efforts to end gerrymandering across the nation since leaving office, have made clear that his views have not changed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 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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