{"id":73203,"date":"2026-05-07T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-to-erase-last-democratic-black-majority-district\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:55:23","slug":"tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-to-erase-last-democratic-black-majority-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-to-erase-last-democratic-black-majority-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymandering<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/07\/donald-trump-republicans-gop-electoral-map-redistricting-midterms-lula-executive-orders-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tennessee\">Tennessee\u2019s<\/a> Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a> effectively gutted a major section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/supreme-court-voting-rights-ruling-explainer\">Voting Rights Act.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move cracks Tennessee\u2019s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, each of which contains almost exactly a third of the city\u2019s Black voters. The new maps mean that all nine of Tennessee\u2019s congressional districts are Republican-leaning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymandering US politics live \u2013 latest updates Tennessee\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act. The &#8230; <a title=\"Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-to-erase-last-democratic-black-majority-district\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}