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

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

And when you present maps to a court, judges are struggling to identify what’s a gerrymander mathematically—many of them inspect gerrymanders visually and say this just doesn’t pass the smell test.

From Slate ● May 24, 2022

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From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Cody, Sherwin

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 Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD

The law and its subsequent reauthorizations ultimately made sure that minority citizens’ votes mattered, outlawing policies, such as gerrymandered maps, that watered down their political power.

From Slate ● May 1, 2026

Even McKinley, who earlier had been gerrymandered into victory, lost his seat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

There are no gerrymandered voting districts in elections for senators.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

Is there any evidence that your state is "gerrymandered"?

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

In 2020, Virginia voters amended the state constitution to put redistricting in the hands of a bipartisan commission to reduce partisan gerrymandering.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

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