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where the U.S. Supreme Court demanded state lawmakers redraw their maps to include an additional majority-minority congressional district to satisfy the Voting Rights Act. In Tennessee ...
Tennessee's Republican-drawn state Senate map is unconstitutional, a judicial panel ruled Wednesday. Tennessee state Senate districts are required to be numbered consecutively in counties with mor ...
The Tennessee General Assembly must redraw its state Senate map by January following a Tuesday ruling by a three-judge panel that found the district boundaries unconstitutional. Three voters ...
including former state Sen. Brenda Gilmore. By splintering Nashville into three Republican-majority districts that stretch into rural counties, Tennessee’s congressional maps sparked significant ...
Interactive: Tennessee redistricting 2022: Congressional maps by district The groups are also challenging the new state Senate map that splits Shelby County, which includes Memphis. The lawsuit ...
The current map has districts 17, 19, 20 and 21 all within Davidson County, meaning three of the four senators representing Davidson County face reelection in the same year.
A Tennessee state court ruled that a Republican-drawn map for the state’s Senate seats violated the Tennessee Constitution.In coming to their Wednesday ruling, a panel of judges determined that ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Republican-drawn map for Tennessee’s Senate seats violates the state Constitution because lawmakers incorrectly numbered the legislative districts in left-leaning ...
Several civil and voting rights groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Republican Gov. Bill Lee and other state officials over Tennessee’s congressional and state Senate maps, which they ...
including former state Sen. Brenda Gilmore. By splintering Nashville into three Republican-majority districts that stretch into rural counties, Tennessee’s congressional maps sparked significant ...
Thursday morning, the Tennessee Supreme Court heard arguments in two challenges to the state’s Senate and House district maps. Francie Hunt and Gary Wygant brought lawsuits against the state ...
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Nashville says the U.S. House maps and those for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering under the 14th and 15th amendments.