Overview
- Tennessee Republicans, who unveiled their proposal Wednesday in a special session, advanced a map that would break up the Memphis-based 9th District and could give the party all nine U.S. House seats.
- The package also scraps the state’s ban on mid‑decade redistricting and reopens candidate filing, a change that could upend the August 6 primary and confuse voters already planning their races.
- Republican leaders say the lines rely on population and party data, not race, while Democrats and civil‑rights groups, including the NAACP, call the plan Black vote dilution and vow legal action.
- President Trump urged GOP states Sunday to redraw now even if people "have to vote twice," and Louisiana has already postponed its House primaries as Alabama moves to allow special primaries and South Carolina readies a redraw push.
- The flurry follows the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision, and analysts say Republicans could add several seats, though court fights, tight election calendars, and earlier moves in states like Florida and cases pending in Virginia make the final map count uncertain.