Tennessee unveils GOP-favored redistricting proposal
by Sarah Fortinsky - 05/06/26 11:01 AM ET
Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for a new congressional map that would heavily favor Republicans this November by splitting up the state’s sole Democratic district.
The map would put a target on Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents the state’s only majority-Black district and is the lone Democrat among Tennessee’s nine House members.
Memphis, which is currently contained in Cohen’s district, would be divided into three parts under the proposal.
The proposal comes amid a renewed push from President Trump for GOP state lawmakers to move forward with mid-decade redistricting.
Trump and Republicans scored a victory last week when the Supreme Court declared Louisiana’s congressional map an illegal gerrymander and ordered the state to redraw its lines, putting at least one of the state’s two Democratic seats in jeopardy.
Tennessee lawmakers are gathering at the state Capitol on Wednesday to consider the proposal.
“The Supreme Court has opined that redistricting, like the judicial system, should be color-blind. The decision indicated states can redistrict based off partisan politics,” Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) wrote in a post on the social platform X, along with the new map, depicted in red.
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