The NAACP’s Tennessee chapter and state Democrats filed a pair of lawsuits challenging a hastily passed new congressional map that wipes out the state’s sole left-leaning, majority-Black district.
Both suits were filed Thursday, hours after Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed the plan approved by the Republican-controlled General Assembly that same day. The NAACP sued in state court while state Democrats and House candidates filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
No judge had ruled on the merits of either case by Friday evening. But a state chancellor on Friday halted the NAACP’s case after saying ...