Democratic candidates, voters file federal challenge to Tennessee’s redistricting

By: Anita Wadhwani, Sam Stockard, Cassandra Stephenson

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: May 8, 2026

Words: 791

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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The Tennessee Democratic Party, four Tennessee Democrats running for a U.S. House seat and four voters filed a federal challenge Friday to the GOP-led revision of congressional maps eliminating the state’s only majority-Black, majority-Democrat district in Memphis.

It is the second lawsuit filed against the redistricting plan since Gov. Bill Lee signed the new map into law Thursday. Within hours of the governor’s signature, the NAACP Tennessee State Conference filed suit in a Nashville state …

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