#Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up #Tennessee’s Majority #Black #House District
The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone #Democratic district.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/gop-memphis-tennessee-house-map.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Tennessee #Republicans on Wednesday proposed a congressional map aimed at diluting the state’s lone majority #Black district, a swift response to last week’s #SCOTUS ruling that weakened a landmark #VotingRights #law.
The new map slices #Memphis, a majority-Black city, & #ShelbyCounty into 3 districts & likely will give Republicans the ability to flip Tennessee’s lone remaining Democratic seat.
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#Democratic lawmakers, whose opposition means little under a #Republican supermajority in the state’s General Assembly, & #Black leaders across #Tennessee have compared the effort to carve up the Ninth Congressional District to #JimCrow era voter suppression tactics. They have accused conservatives of a power grab that undermines Black voters in #Memphis, who have long favored #Democrats.
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@Nonilex Doesn’t this action render Shelby County vs. Holder (2013) obsolete? Can we use this argument to retrieve this provision (preclearance) of the VRA?
@ELS no, not at all.
Shelby County was largely about much broader concepts of federal-state interaction in the US that apply outside of anything involving voting rights.
"The Federal Government does not, however, have a general right to review and veto state enactments before they go into effect" is a statement with broad applicability.
