Tennessee, majority and 9th District
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The new map splits Shelby County into three districts, tearing apart the state’s Black-majority district.
Tennessee's new congressional map targets the 9th District in Memphis, drawing protests from Democrats and raising legal challenges over voter rights.
As protesters accused them of racial gerrymandering, Tennessee state lawmakers passed into law on Thursday a new congressional map that could allow Republicans to flip the state’s lone Democratic-held seat, notching the GOP another win in the mid-decade ...
The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.
The ruling damages efforts to overturn the congressional map that divides Memphis' majority Black voter district.
Judges from West, Middle and East Tennessee heard arguments Thursday in the first of four legal challenges to the new map. The NAACP filed an emergency petition soon after the legislature approved new congressional districts, heeding a call from President Donald Trump to redistrict before the midterm elections.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is facing its first court challenge over a congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year's elections, a move that the plaintiffs say has ...