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In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, several Republican states felt emboldened to carve up their majority-black congressional districts that tend to elect Democrats, and they raced to create new maps to benefit the GOP in the House of Representatives.
Midterm elections usually go poorly for the party in power, and with many political operatives predicting that Republicans will lose their razor-thin majority in Congress’ lower chamber this fall, the GOP is scrambling to get as many seats as it can.
Charles Hilu is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the company in 2024, he was the Collegiate Network Fellow at the Washington Free Beacon and interned at both National Review and the Washington Examiner. When he is not chasing down lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he is probably listening to show tunes or following the premier sports teams of the University of Michigan and city of Detroit.
