Gerrymandered in a sentence

Anyway, I implore ALL women to stand up and demand that these GOP dominated and gerrymandered state legislatures acknowledge the plain and simple fact that it takes a man’s overt act just as much as a woman’s overt act to start a pregnancy.

But given the massive partisan divide in Wisconsin, and a gerrymandered Republican Legislature that has been starving the UW System since 2011, it’s hard to imagine any bipartisan policymaking will rise to the fore.

He's gerrymandered the state.

However, when the commission deadlocked over a new district map, the Democrat-run state legislature stepped in and gerrymandered its own redistricting map.

In other states, courts appear poised to force lawmakers to abandon gerrymandered plans in favor of fairer maps.

That gives you a sense of the white paternalism gripping the Tennessee General Assembly, where conservatives have gerrymandered themselves into a supermajority.

The heavily gerrymandered Republican maps have prevailed ever since.

They also show how the power struggle — which comes as liberal groups race to topple the state’s Republican-gerrymandered legislative districts ahead of the 2024 election — had been underway for months.

This is particularly true of the elected officials of gerrymandered state legislatures who do not want the overturning of laws they have written by the people of their states.

Court faces new lawsuit charging congressional district maps are gerrymandered.

Earlier this year, a Helena judge deemed the map likely unconstitutional but denied a request for preliminary injunction that had been citizens concerned about gerrymandered districts.

Heavily gerrymandered seats also help, but even those can't save people who step out of line and play only for themselves.

Last week they filed a Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to overturn the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps, pleading that lawmakers can’t draw new ones by the Court’s Jan.

Ohio’s districts were created after the 2020 census by a Republican-led commission of elected state officials and were repeatedly deemed by courts to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that a lower court “clearly erred” when it held that racially gerrymandered its congressional district map.

While that is technically the case, it is that very system that produced of legislative and congressional maps that courts declared unconstitutionally gerrymandered in Republicans’ favor.

But they “gerrymandered every aspect of the law in order to ensure that all political parties in power will be re-elected and none of the voices in the opposition could be,” said elections expert Amal Hamdan.

Meanwhile, other problems that tend to suppress the votes of historically disenfranchised groups persist, including uneven translation of ballot materials, gerrymandered districts and at-large election schemes.

The underlying case was decided last year by a three-judge panel from Wake County Superior Court, which ruled the districts were illegally gerrymandered for partisan gain, violating the State Constitution.

Together with gerrymandered election districts, voter suppression, and an antiquated system for casting ballots and validating results, these factors undermine citizens’ options for political participation and facilitate minority rule.