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Tennessee’s redistricting plan faces legal challenges

By Marianna Bacallao

May 8, 2026

Tennessee’s new congressional maps are now facing multiple legal challenges, as voters, candidates and the NAACP, file to stop new maps from going into effect before the midterms.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, congressional maps, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, Gerrymandering, governor, Mark Goins, memphis, NAACP, redistricting, special session, Tennessee Democratic Party, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee strikes down decades-old law against redistricting

By Marianna Bacallao

May 7, 2026

Gov. Bill Lee has signed a measure to strike down a 1972 law that prohibited mid-decade redistricting, a mere hour after the bill cleared the Republican supermajority in the statehouse. Heeding a call from President Donald Trump, state Republicans are altering Tennessee law and the timeline for its elections to give the GOP another seat […]

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, congressional maps, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, Gerrymandering, governor, governor's race, memphis, redistricting, tnleg, tnpol

Late Tennessee Rep. G.A. Hardaway’s son to replace him ahead of redistricting vote

By Marianna Bacallao

May 6, 2026

Shelby County is sending TJ Hardaway, the son of late Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-Memphis, to the Tennessee statehouse to replace his father, who passed away less than two weeks ago.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, congressional maps, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, G.A. Hardaway, Gerrymandering, governor, memphis, redistricting, special session, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee GOP unveils new maps fracturing Memphis and Nashville area

By Marianna Bacallao

May 6, 2026

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.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, congressional maps, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, Gerrymandering, governor, John Stevens, memphis, Raumesh Akbari, redistricting, special session, tnleg, tnpol

Hundreds march as Tennessee takes up Trump’s redistricting call

By Marianna Bacallao

May 5, 2026

Hundreds of protesters gathered at Tennessee’s capitol Tuesday as lawmakers began a special session to consider splitting Memphis’s Democratic stronghold into reliably red districts.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, congressional maps, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, Gerrymandering, governor, governor's race, justin j. pearson, London Lamar, Marsha Blackburn, memphis, Raumesh Akbari, redistricting, Steve Cohen, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee to track transgender patients, put trans women in male prisons

By Marianna Bacallao

May 2, 2026

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed several bills legislating Tennessee’s LGBTQ community — and more on the way to his desk.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, anti-lgbt legislaton, Bill Lee, Dahron Anneliese Johnson, Emily Benedict, gender-affirming care, Jeremy Faison, lgbtq, Nashville Metro Council, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Equality Project, tnleg, tnpol, transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, VUMC

Tennessee governor calls session to redistrict Memphis after Trump pressure

By Marianna Bacallao

May 1, 2026

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has officially called a special session for the legislature to re-draw the state’s congressional maps.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, congressional maps, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, Gerrymandering, governor, governor's race, justin j. pearson, London Lamar, Marsha Blackburn, memphis, Raumesh Akbari, redistricting, Steve Cohen, tnleg, tnpol

Trump pressures Tennessee Republicans to redraw congressional maps

By Marianna Bacallao

April 29, 2026

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the path for Tennessee Republicans to redistrict another seat in their party’s favor ahead of the November midterms.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 5th Congressional District, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Donald Trump, Elections 2026, Gerrymandering, governor, governor's race, justin j. pearson, London Lamar, Marsha Blackburn, memphis, Raumesh Akbari, redistricting, Steve Cohen, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee brings Trump’s immigration policy to the states. Here’s what’s new

By Marianna Bacallao

April 24, 2026

The Tennessee General Assembly has passed nearly a dozen bills to aid the Trump administration’s mass deportations at the state level.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, 287(g), Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bill Lee, Cameron Sexton, Donald Trump, Gabby Salinas, ICE, immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jason Zachary, police, raid, Stephen Miller, tnleg, tnpol

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