State and federal courts in Tennessee ruled against challenges to the state’s new congressional map, dealing another blow to advocates who sought to scuttle Republicans’ efforts to eliminate the state’s sole majority-Black district.
The unsuccessful efforts to challenge Tennessee’s map come amid broader efforts nationwide to redistrict ahead of midterm elections, after the US Supreme Court last month said Louisiana’s challenged congressional map and its two majority-Black districts were unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered. The challengers have lost in three of four suits taking on the new map—which wipes out a solidly Democratic and majority-Black district in the Memphis area and ...