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2022 This has cleared the field for blue states to gerrymander the bejeesus out of their maps. Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022 So it's really been the different states attempting to gerrymander intellectual disability that has been confusing, not the standard. 2022 But Democrats have used their power to gerrymander more aggressively than expected. 2022 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.ĭavid Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022 But Democrats have used their power to gerrymander more aggressively than analysts expected.Ĭompiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022 Naturally, while this sort of behavior is entirely consistent with the history of their party as detailed in my first installment, Democrats have postured themselves as innocent victims forced to gerrymander against their will.ĭan Mclaughlin, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022 This seems clear enough: Don’t racially gerrymander. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Although Missouri has large Republican majorities in both legislative chambers, a conservative coalition has split with GOP leaders over how aggressively to gerrymander district lines to their favor.Īrkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2022 New Yorkers, Ohioans and all Americans can look at both maps and decide which is the true gerrymander. Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022 Opponents contend the maps adopted by the Legislature were a gerrymander and disenfranchise a wide swath of Utah voters. 2022 An expert witness for the state, Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University, argued that the congressional map was not a partisan gerrymander, and that there was nothing extreme about Maryland’s map. 2022 But the gerrymander has drawn the sharpest rebukes. 2022 The map replaced one that the Ohio Supreme Court - in an opinion written by O’Connor and the court’s three Democratic justices - rejected as a pro-Republican gerrymander in January.Īndrew J.
2022 The State Supreme Court had rejected an initial version of the congressional map in January, calling it a Republican gerrymander that violated the Ohio Constitution. 2022 Late last month, Anne Arundel County Senior Judge Lynne Battaglia struck down a map Democrats had passed in December, calling it an unconstitutional gerrymander that disadvantaged Republicans. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But the Legislature was too obviously eager to take partisan advantage, and on Wednesday a majority on the state’s highest court blocked the gerrymander.
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