Are we settling in for a Republican House of Representatives for a very long time to come?

The November midterm elections showed the Republicans’ electoral ascendancy in Congress and many state legislatures. But the future of the party’s dominance may hinge in part on a case that the U.S. Supreme Court took up the month before. In Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the justices will consider a challenge to a 2000 state voter initiative that shifted the responsibility for redistricting from the state legislature to an independent citizen commission. The case concerns an all-important question for U.S. elections: Who gets to draw the political map?

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