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Tennessee poised to vote on new US House map sought by Trump that carves up Memphis
The plan would split Memphis’s majority-Black district and reopen candidate qualifying as Republicans seek a map that could help them keep the House.
- Tennessee Republicans advanced legislation Wednesday to adopt a new congressional map that would split Memphis's majority-Black, Democratic-held district, with the package moving toward a potential Senate vote by Friday.
- Since Trump prodded Texas to redraw districts last year, eight states have adopted new congressional maps following a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act, part of a broader Republican strategy in Southern states.
- Protesters repeatedly interrupted legislative hearings Wednesday as Democrats and civil rights activists denounced the plan, with Sekou Franklin of the NAACP calling it "Black vote dilution at an industrial scale."
- Debate focused on plans that could reschedule the Aug. 6 House primary and reopen candidate qualifying windows, leading Democrats to warn of voter confusion despite Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton claiming population-based justifications.
- The South Carolina Senate could take up a resolution today allowing lawmakers to return after their regular work ends to redraw districts that could eliminate the state's only Democratic-held seat, echoing Tennessee's strategy.
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Tennessee GOP unveils new maps fracturing Memphis and Nashville area
Tennessee Republicans unveiled new congressional maps Wednesday morning that would likely help their party gain an extra seat in Congress as a special session on redistricting continues this week. The proposal would split Memphis into three districts and further fracture Nashville and its surrounding counties into five. If passed, all of Tennessee’s nine congressional districts would be presented by Republicans in a state where roughly a third o…
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