A citizen ballot initiative in Michigan that took redistricting out of the hands of partisan legislators was lauded by elites. But the resulting commission has drawn a new map that could leave this state with no black member of Congress for the first time in 50 years.

Four-term Democrat Brenda Lawrence was the first victim to fall because of these new lines. She denies that this is the reason for her retirement, but she is leaving, opening her seat to Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American in the U.S. House, who will now be moving into a newly drawn 12th District, which includes her Arab American base in Dearborn as well as part of Detroit and Lawrence’s hometown of Southfield.