#Tennessee #Republicans on Wednesday proposed a congressional map aimed at diluting the state’s lone majority #Black district, a swift response to last week’s #SCOTUS ruling that weakened a landmark #VotingRights #law.

The new map slices #Memphis, a majority-Black city, & #ShelbyCounty into 3 districts & likely will give Republicans the ability to flip Tennessee’s lone remaining Democratic seat.

#ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #USpol

#Democratic lawmakers, whose opposition means little under a #Republican supermajority in the state’s General Assembly, & #Black leaders across #Tennessee have compared the effort to carve up the Ninth Congressional District to #JimCrow era voter suppression tactics. They have accused conservatives of a power grab that undermines Black voters in #Memphis, who have long favored #Democrats.

#law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #VotingRights #redistricting #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters

@ELS no, not at all.

Shelby County was largely about much broader concepts of federal-state interaction in the US that apply outside of anything involving voting rights.

"The Federal Government does not, however, have a general right to review and veto state enactments before they go into effect" is a statement with broad applicability.

@Nonilex