{"id":73221,"date":"2026-05-08T05:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/anger-mounts-after-tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:55:04","slug":"anger-mounts-after-tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/anger-mounts-after-tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger mounts after Tennessee Republicans redraw maps \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislature has eliminated the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email <\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-politics\">US politics<\/a>. Tennessee\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district as GOP lawmakers scramble to improve their fortunes ahead of the November midterms.<\/p>\n<p>The new map splits Shelby County, the home of Memphis, a majority-Black city that played a critical role in the civil rights movement, into three separate Republican-leaning districts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/08\/donald-trump-republicans-tennessee-redistricting-maps-voting-rights-iran-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislature has eliminated the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district Sign up for the Breaking News US email Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Tennessee\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district as GOP lawmakers scramble to improve their fortunes ahead of &#8230; <a title=\"Anger mounts after Tennessee Republicans redraw maps \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/anger-mounts-after-tennessee-republicans-redraw-maps-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anger mounts after Tennessee Republicans redraw maps \u2013 US politics live\">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-73221","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\/73221","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=73221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}