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Tennessee Republicans Will Consider Redrawing US House District Covering Majority-Black Memphis
Republicans are weighing a map that could split Memphis and weaken the state’s lone Democratic-held House seat after Trump pressed for more redistricting.
- On Tuesday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called a special legislative session to consider a redistricting plan targeting the state's lone Democratic-held U.S. House district centered on Memphis, following pressure from President Donald Trump.
- Republican lawmakers in several Southern states are seizing on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to redraw congressional districts ahead of November midterms, with Trump encouraging these efforts as Republicans seek to maintain their narrow House majority.
- Clergy members denounced the plan Monday, with the Rev. Earle Fisher, founder of Up the Vote 901, describing the potential breakup of Memphis's district as "misrepresentation." Fisher said, "It is about misrepresentation."
- Alabama's special session began Monday amid protests, with demonstrators at the historic Alabama Capitol carrying signs declaring "No new map" and chanting "We fight back!" against the redistricting effort.
- Sheyann Webb-Christburg, a participant in the 1965 Bloody Sunday voting rights march, noted that "much blood, sweat and tears was shed" in the historic effort to secure the right to vote.
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Tennessee Democrats: Redistricting special session all about race
Democrats Reps. Sam McKenzie of Knoxville, left, and John Ray Clemmons of Nashville, right. Clemmons predicted a legal challenge if new Tennessee U.S. House maps are drawn. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)Tennessee Democrats are disputing Republican claims that a move to redraw Memphis’ majority-minority congressional district is a political effort void of discrimination and say a legal challenge is certain. “This is obviously about rac…
Tennessee Republicans will consider redrawing US House district covering majority-Black Memphis - The Boston Globe
Tennessee becomes the latest Southern state to consider redrawing its congressional map after the US Supreme Court severely weakened the Voting Rights Act.
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Tennessee Republicans will consider redrawing US House district covering majority-Black Memphis
Tennessee becomes the latest Southern state to consider redrawing its congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the Voting Rights Act.
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