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

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

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

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

Earls, the founder and former executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, had battled Republican gerrymanders in North Carolina for years before winning election to the court in 2018.

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

The group has also joined lawsuits claiming racial gerrymanders of House districts in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, and is mounting grass-roots efforts to enact electoral reforms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 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 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

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

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 James Wilford Garner

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

The 15th amendment, which prohibits denying or abridging the right to vote on the basis of race, makes racial gerrymandering legally suspect.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 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

In order to prevent gerrymandering it was agreed that this Commission should not only be quite independent of both parties, but that it should have absolute powers.

From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid