The party that controls the map controls the voters.
The party that controls the calendar controls the map.
And the court that controls the calendar may control the House.
There is no neutral beauty in that.
There is only a warning.
The redistricting fight used to be about the shape of districts. Now it is about whether elections can be rearranged while the country is already walking toward the polls.
The map broke first.
The vote may be next.
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