Tennessee state legislators on Thursday passed a congressional map that dismantles the state’s lone majority-Black district and gives Republicans the advantage in all nine of the state’s House seats.
The move comes a little over a week after the Supreme Court limited the use of race in drawing congressional districts, prompting several GOP-controlled Southern states to weigh redrawing their House maps ahead of the midterm elections.
Both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly, where Republicans hold supermajorities, approved the new map Thursday in the face of loud protests at the state Capitol in Nashville. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who called the special session to address redistricting, signed the bill into law, according to news reports.
