The complaint was the first court challenge over a 2022 congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year’s elections.
NashVillager Podcast: March 26, 2024
This is the first full election cycle since the state legislature split Nashville between three districts. We look at who is running and how it’s all working, plus this morning’s newscast and a conversation with Nashville mothers-turned-gun control activists.
Tennessee redistricting maps face legal challenge, alleging ‘racial gerrymandering’
A group of voters, civil rights leaders and a former state lawmaker are suing to block the redistricting maps that Tennessee created last year. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court, alleges that Tennessee’s Republican supermajority intentionally limited the power of Black voters when it split Nashville into three separate congressional districts.
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