Tennessee passes new congressional map that splits states only . . . 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 redistricting scramble Republican Tennessee Gov Bill Lee signed the bill into law Thursday afternoon The session was interrupted by
Tennessee Enacts New U. S. House Map Carving Up Majority-Black District . . . Not long after the new map became law, the NAACP Tennessee State Conference sued in state court asserting that the mid-decade redistricting is illegal Tennessee is the first state to pass new congressional districts since a U S Supreme Court ruling last week significantly weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities