Following the 1990 United States census, Michigan lost the 18th and 17th districts.
Republicans held control of the redistricting process, using the REDMAP plan to maximize gains in legislative and congressional maps.
In 2018, voters approved of a proposal to establish an independent redistricting commission for congressional and state legislative districts for Michigan.
The new district lines resulted in Detroit failing to elect a black member of Congress for the first time in nearly 70 years.
[2] On March 23, 2022, a group of nineteen African-American Detroiters who live in thirteen different Michigan House and Senate districts in portions of Detroit sued the MICRC for violating the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.