How to Use gerrymandering in a Sentence

gerrymandering

noun

• 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
• With this simple change, Canada got rid of gerrymandering.
  — Olivia Ardito, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• The big question in Alexander: What happens when a legislature engages in both racial and partisan gerrymandering?
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024