gerrymander

Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion gives a detailed history of Section 2 and a tour of the Court’s messy racial gerrymander jurisprudence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 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

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

But eliminating racial gerrymanders has made some districts in both states more competitive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

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

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

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

He has gerrymandered the boundaries of confidentiality to sidestep established ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

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

Black candidates made historic inroads in statewide elections for offices like the Senate, which are not affected by redrawing individual district maps; and in the House, Black candidates won many contested seats, gerrymandering be damned.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 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

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

From Slate ● May 11, 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

In 1876, he was elected to Congress, against a normal Democratic majority, for five successive terms, being defeated when he ran the sixth time through the gerrymandering of his district by his political opponents.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris