How to Use gerrymander in a Sentence

gerrymander

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• There’s a good chance that North Carolina’s Supreme Court will overturn the gerrymander in that state, too.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The New York legislature, which was stopped by the state courts, would engage in a gerrymander.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• Last week, a New York State judge declined to block the state’s new Democratic gerrymander.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• The Supreme Court has never struck down a voting district as a gerrymander.
  — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
• And a bunch of voters challenged that map and said look, this is a partisan gerrymander.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• But voters will have more tools and awareness to catch gerrymanders in the act than ever before.
  — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 28 June 2019
• After the gerrymander, about 62 or 63 were more Republican than the state as a whole.
  — David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2021
• New Yorkers, Ohioans and all Americans can look at both maps and decide which is the true gerrymander.
  — WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• The point is to prevent a ruling that strikes down a gerrymander from making a state budget or a quorum vanish.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
• Doing so, in the case of Texas and Florida, would block some of the worst and most devastating partisan gerrymanders of the next decade.
  — Adam Eichen, The New Republic, 23 July 2019
• In Illinois, Democrats could net three seats out of a map that has drawn widespread criticism for being a gerrymander.
  — David A. Lieb and Nicholas Riccardi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2021
• North Carolina has a past at the Supreme Court, with redistricting plans struck down as racial gerrymanders.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2018
• Yet one of the most promising anti-gerrymander efforts may also be among the most imperiled.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 30 June 2018
• The justices left the door open for future challenges to partisan gerrymanders.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• The Supreme Court has never struck down a voting district as a partisan gerrymander.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• Of all the forms of gerrymander, single-party districts are the most corrosive of our democracy.
  — David Lebedoff, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• All three partisan gerrymander lawsuits potentially could return to the high court in the next year or two.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 25 June 2018
• All of this reinforces the argument that judges should keep out of fights over partisan gerrymanders.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Gerry’s gerrymander was by no means the first, however.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard its second challenge this term to partisan gerrymanders, this time in a case brought by Republicans.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that the state’s maps were a Republican gerrymander and ordered new ones to be drawn.
  — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 30 Oct. 2018
• It cannot be overcome by getting rid of the filibuster or racist gerrymanders—neither of which have any basis in the Constitution—though both of these reforms would help.
  — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2020
• The decision was the first from a federal court to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• Federal courts will strike down a gerrymander intended to dilute the votes of racial minorities.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• The state’s Supreme Court initially rejected the map as a partisan gerrymander.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2023
• The Ohio Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that that state's new map was a partisan gerrymander that violated the state constitution.
  — Tierney Sneed and Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Federal courts have taken a more robust role, too, striking down gerrymanders in battleground states such as Ohio and Michigan.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
• The Supreme Court, however, has never struck down a partisan gerrymander.
  — David G. Savage, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2019
• With recent decisions in Ohio and Michigan, federal courts in five states have struck down maps as partisan gerrymanders.
  — Robert Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• Then, a district court judicial panel rejected the state’s map, ruling that large portions of it were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders and ordering maps to be redrawn.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2023

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gerrymander

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• The GOP fought tooth and nail to protect the right to gerrymander over the last decade.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2022
• This has cleared the field for blue states to gerrymander the bejeesus out of their maps.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• The 11 districts that were found to be gerrymandered were mostly in the Richmond and Hampton Roads area.
  — Denise Lavoie, The Seattle Times, 23 Jan. 2019
• The current map, which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the country, was approved by the current state Supreme Court last year.
  — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Texas Democrats, still a minority and gerrymandered to stay that way, do have hope.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• And then there could be no solution to gerrymandering for decades to come.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Mar. 2018
• The race was an uphill battle from the start—North Carolina’s districts have already been deemed too gerrymandered by the courts.
  — Jenny Kaplan, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2018
• Reply: Wrote about the ability to gerrymander the Pac-12 schedule in a column here.
  — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2020
• That Ohio gerrymander that the report called out got wiped off the books this month, when Ohio’s Supreme Court ruled the map violated the state constitution.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The other thing is that this map was so blatantly gerrymandered.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
• In a state thus gerrymandered, Democrats can win the overall popular vote but still lose House seats, simply because their votes count less.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2018
• Experts say its political lines are among the least gerrymandered in the United States as a result.
  — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 2 May 2018
• But gerrymandering in the Old Dominion is not dead yet.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2019
• The term gerrymandering dates back to 1812, and the act of drawing districts for political gain is even older.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
• The 5-4 court ruling is seen as a loss for Democrats and civil rights advocates who argue the districts in question are racially gerrymandered.
  — Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 25 June 2018
• Heavily gerrymandered, the district is overwhelmingly white and went for Trump by 33.4 points in a state where Trump won overall by 8.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 11 July 2018
• Here’s Pete Williams on what the N.C. gerrymandering court ruling means.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
• Even umpire Chad Fairchild got in on it, seemingly gerrymandering the strike zone to include Ann Arbor.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• The Supreme Court sent challenges to various forms of gerrymandering back down to the lower courts in its recent term, rather than issuing a firm ruling.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• In a place where 90-plus percent of members hold safe and often gerrymandered seats, where 90-year-old Sen. Charles Grassley is in his eighth term, something tells us that’s just not happening.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• But a 5-4 majority on Monday pushed back hard against the left’s gambit in Texas to use the law to racially gerrymander legislative districts.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2018
• Some of the state’s political maps, including at least one drawn by Republicans, were thrown out by the courts, which found them to be racially gerrymandered.
  — Timothy Williams, New York Times, 5 July 2019
• Democrats widely decried the move as an attempt to gerrymander the state’s highest courts and retaliate against Supreme Court justices.
  — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
• Or conversely, this was the last chance the Republicans had to win on an electoral map so ludicrously gerrymandered that the state supreme court blew it up and took on itself the job of redrawing the map.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
• Few of the retirements thus far appear likely to alter the balance of power in Congress, where the vast majority of House seats are gerrymandered to be safe for one party or the other.
  — Kayla Guo, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• This can give state legislatures the power to gerrymander.
  — Melissa Walker, Teen Vogue, 16 May 2018
• The conceptual map drawn up by the White House looks torturously gerrymandered, all but erasing the pre-1967 boundary that long formed the baseline for a potential agreement.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
• His government has gerrymandered electoral boundaries to enhance the BN’s chances.
  — The Economist, 5 May 2018
• Earlier this month, the attempt in Pennsylvania to gerrymander its state courts also fell apart.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
• With the Pennsylvania House closed for the summer, chances of reaching an agreement to redraw the state’s gerrymandered election lines before the November election deadline have dimmed.
  — Oona Goodin-Smith, Philly.com, 27 June 2018

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