How to Use gerrymandering in a Sentence

gerrymandering

noun
  • Congress can eliminate partisan gerrymandering for congressional seats — that just takes a statute.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Aug. 2024
  • However, today the country is entirely free of gerrymandering.
    Olivia Ardito, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But two Supreme Court cases in the past decade have also changed the guardrails for gerrymandering.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • There is no way pat, the wine should be ruling on his dad’s gerrymandering case.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 May 2022
  • The House last year passed a bill to protect voting rights and restrict gerrymandering.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Bob Cup is the house speaker who did everything possible to thwart the will of the voters on gerrymandering and at years end.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The two that come to mind are the gerrymandering of congressional districts and the role of money in politics.
    Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2016
  • So, while most Texans might be able to vote, their voice has been rendered silent because of gerrymandering.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The Supreme Court, in a 2019 case, held that federal courts can’t hear claims of partisan gerrymandering.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the opinion pages Derek Kitchen: Utah will not stand for partisan gerrymandering.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
  • And yet, despite the Supreme Court’s decision, the state has refused to comply and has drawn new maps that do not address the racial gerrymandering present in Alabama.
    Rotimi Adeoye, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Supreme Court in 2019 said the doors of federal courts were closed to claims of partisan gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting lines to entrench the party in power.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • If the theory is affirmed by the court, gerrymandering is also a top concern for the election experts.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In the redistricting case, the majority held that claims of partisan gerrymandering fall outside the purview of the state Supreme Court.
    USA Today, 25 July 2023
  • There is no doubt that the U.S. suffers from extremely high levels of gerrymandering.
    Olivia Ardito, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Among the states, Ohio has become a prime battleground, with fights underway over both gerrymandering and election rules.
    Michael Wines, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The theories that the G.O.P. legislators adopted as a means to that gerrymandering end don’t only fly in the face of the decisions that Kagan cited.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • There was partisan gerrymandering even in the colonies.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • As a result of the racial gerrymandering, the state only has one Black representative.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But racial gerrymandering is another matter, in part because of the Voting Rights Act.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Voting rights: Supreme Court to dig into claims of racial gerrymandering in Alabama.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The bill contains some good, if underbaked, ideas to restrict gerrymandering — though plenty of Democrats oppose them.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 7 June 2021
  • The Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that federal courts would not get involved in disputes about partisan gerrymandering.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • But with an opportunity to clarify the law on racial gerrymandering, the Chief passed.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2023
  • And in 2019, the Supreme Court opened the door to more aggressive gerrymandering by barring federal court challenges on the basis of partisanship.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 May 2023
  • Their goal: maximize the number of seats drawn to guarantee the election of a Democrat or Republican, a process known as gerrymandering.
    David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
  • That position could open the door to widespread gerrymandering and even affect the conduct of presidential elections at the state level, posing a new threat to the democratic process.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Thanks to a 2019 ruling by the Supreme Court, federal courts can no longer hear cases that seek to overturn legislative maps for partisan gerrymandering.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The existence of states is not a matter of partisan gerrymandering.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Concerns about gerrymandering and the way Wisconsin's congressional and state legislative lines are drawn are also likely to be a factor in the race.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023

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