Republican-Drawn Map for Tennessee’s Senate Seats Violates State Constitution, Judges Rule

A Republican-drawn map for Tennessee’s Senate seats violates the state Constitution and must be redrawn by the state’s General Assembly, a 2–1 panel on a Tennessee trial court ruled on Nov. 22. The decision from the three-judge panel was issued in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of three Democratic voters in February 2022 challenging Tennessee’s new state House and Senate maps which were passed by the Republican-supermajority Legislature in that same year. The maps were drawn with 2020 census data. While the court sided with the state with regard to the House maps, it agreed with the plaintiffs that the Senate map was unconstitutional....