Redistricting Is Inverting the Founders’ Vision for the House

To view the rapidly escalating redistricting war between the parties as a typical partisan squabble is to miss the full magnitude of what’s unfolding.

A convergence of events has guaranteed that by 2028, virtually every state, whether red or blue, will move to eliminate congressional seats held by its minority party. The cumulative impact will be to fundamentally invert the role that the founders envisioned for the House of Representatives. That will erode the ability of all voters to cast a meaningful ballot, but will trigger an especially ignominious erasure of Black political power.