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 ...

The districts in question are Davidson County's four state Senate districts, which are numbered 17, 19, 20 and 21. The GOP-backed map drew Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, into Davidson County in ...

This comes from the state redistricting back in 2022. Republicans and Democrats scraped about the lines, bringing forth lawsuits to the court about both the House and Senate maps. Lt. Gov. Randy ...

Meanwhile, Tennessee’s state legislative maps are still facing another lawsuit on state constitutional grounds. A ruling could be handed down sometime soon.

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.