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The 112th General Assembly of Tennessee lawmakers began in earnest in January with the Republican Supermajority ready to flex their legislative muscle by re-drawing the state's political map.
Maps will be political, but they must pass legal muster too We are in a fractious political environment in which high stakes are regularly attached to decisions and events. In Tennessee ...
"But the facts are also consistent with a political gerrymander ... than plausibly allege that Tennessee’s legislators knew that their Republican-friendly map would harm voters who preferred ...
The contentious ouster of Tennessee state lawmakers Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis is the latest skirmish in a longstanding power struggle between Republicans who control ...
Bill Lee and other state officials over Tennessee’s congressional and state Senate maps, which they allege are discriminatory and violate the constitutional rights of voters of color.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judicial panel has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Tennessee’s U.S. House maps and those for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.