Partisan gerrymandering has protected Republican majorities in the Michigan statehouse and sent a disproportionate share to Congress
It was a few months after Donald Trump was elected, and Kate Fahey, a Michigan recycling agency employee, was, like many Americans, animated by an acute sense of injustice. Republicans in Michigan managed to claim nine out of 14 congressional seats after winning only half of the popular vote – for the third election in a row.
In the cold February of 2017, in the coldest part of the state, an overflow crowd packed a town hall meeting that Fahey organized. The seeming dullness of the gerrymandering issue was no deterrence. People were upset. Even voters who did not support Trump agreed with him that the system was manipulated by politicians to keep themselves in power.
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