https://www.bridgemi.com/public-sec...licans-brag-redistricting-protects-incumbents Emails: Michigan Republicans brag that redistricting ‘protects incumbents’ The lawsuit filing, filed after 11 p.m. Friday, includes dozens of pages of emails and depositions and seeks to preserve the lawsuit against Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, whose attorneys have asked a federal judge to dismiss it. “Can we still have the map makers draw a favorable Republican district with the Pointes all together?” Cotton, a healthcare executive who lives in Grosse Pointe Farms, wrote on July 14, 2011. “Your map protects all nine incumbents and it looks good,” he wrote Timmer on May 16, 2011.