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 ...

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 ...

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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 lawsuit also targeted state Senate District 31, which covers parts ... filed against the congressional redistricting map was led by the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, the African ...