On Thursday, Alyssa Basmajian, a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Studies and Training Center, lectured on the effect of gerrymandering — the manipulation of electoral district lines to advantage ...

National efforts in the last Congress also failed to ban partisan gerrymandering. In 2019, the US Supreme Court ruled it’s up to state courts to deal with legal battles over voting maps.

For example, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tackled gerrymandering in California by creating a commission of impartial Californians to draw districts.

Another way that strategic gerrymandering could help Democrats give themselves an advantage is by creating more competitive districts for Republicans. An example of this isMichigan’s 9th district, ...

Those maps were egregious examples of gerrymandering — the practice of manipulating the borders of congressional and state districts to benefit one party at the expense of the other.

These examples highlight yet another reason gerrymandering persists despite its many critics: it's almost impossible to reverse gerrymandering in court.

Concerning the congressional redistricting in New York: It’s hard to find a better example of how the Democratic Party has come to see ­itself above the law (“New York gerrymandering could ...

Voter Purges, Gerrymandering Examples of Continued Failures in Democracy Says Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice "The question is do these representatives reflect what the citizens of Ohio ...

“ Unintentional gerrymandering,” as some political scientists call it. As long as the U.S. retains single-member districting, gerrymandering, intentional or not, is here to stay.

One of the most notorious examples of gerrymandering in that period was the state’s 12th Congressional District, a 160-mile sliver of territory that encompassed African American neighborhoods in ...

For example, one argument during the Obama years was that gerrymandering made it “ impossible ” for Democrats to win the House.