Tennessee’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed suit, and others hinted at further legal challenges, on May 7 over Tennessee’s newly enacted congressional map, which redraws Memphis into three districts and ends what had been the state’s only majority-black and its only Democratic-held congressional seat.
U.S. Rep Steve Cohen, the lone Democrat in Tennessee’s congressional delegation, also alluded to his own forthcoming legal challenges after the map passed, saying in a post on X that the “next stop” in Democratic pushback is in “the courts.”
The NAACP Tennessee State Conference filed its lawsuit the same day the redistricting-related bills were signed, asking judges to block the map under the Tennessee Constitution and state law before the August primaries. …
Legal Challenges Begin as Tennessee Redraws Sole Democratic District
