The new map splits Shelby County into three districts, tearing apart the state’s Black-majority district.

A three-judge panel has upheld Tennessee’s new congressional map, which splits the majority-Black and longtime Democratic stronghold of Memphis across three different districts.

Tennessee Republicans passed a new congressional map that divides the state’s last safe Democratic district and fractures the Black vote in Memphis. The vote occurred amidst chaotic protests from Democratic lawmakers and citizens who decried the map as ...

The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.

Judges from West, Middle and East Tennessee heard arguments Thursday in the first of four legal challenges to the new map. The NAACP filed an emergency petition soon after the legislature approved new congressional districts, heeding a call from President Donald Trump to redistrict before the midterm elections.

On day two of Tennessee's special session, the GOP proposed its ambitious redraw linking Memphis and the greater Nashville area in two separate districts.

The NAACP is asking the court to block the maps, arguing that it's too close to the election — but the state argues it's too late to change them back.

Tennessee Republicans earlier Thursday approved a measure to overturn the state's ban on mid-decade redistricting.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Thursday signed into law a new GOP-friendly House map that carves up the state’s only majority-Black district and threatens the lone Democrat in the state’s