gerrymander

On Monday the Court stopped a racial gerrymander in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 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

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

Nate Persily, a Stanford Law School professor and expert on election law and democracy, said that any standard for judging partisan gerrymanders has to be above reproach.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

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

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

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

Imagine, then, that rather than drawing Texas into 38 gerrymandered districts, with each holding an election for one representative, Texas instead held one election—statewide—wherein all of its voters chose all of its 38 representatives.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2025

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

Former Representative Reid Ribble, a Republican who served northeastern Wisconsin, said, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandered House or State Assembly seats, and there’s some truth to that.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 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

If the council held the key to the city treasury, the boss reigned, for councilmen from properly gerrymandered wards could usually be trusted to execute his will.

From The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization by Samuel Peter Orth

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

Yet now, without any justification, the supermajority has imported Callais’ jury-rigged standards into the constitutional rules against racial gerrymandering.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 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