Mariana Bacayau
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 27 May
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A three-judge panel in Tennessee rejected an emergency petition filed by the NAACP to stop the new congressional map from going into effect.
The change splits the state's majority Black city of Memphis into three different districts.
The NAACP had argued that the General Assembly went beyond its authority when it struck down a 50-year-old law prohibiting mid-decade redistricting.
The judges disagreed.
The petition is the first of four lawsuits seeking to block the new map, and a separate lawsuit by the NAACP filed in federal court is still going forward.
For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bacayau in Nashville.
I don't like where this is headed.
Thanks for having me.
The Justice Department had charged him with human smuggling around this time last year after Abrego Garcia had won his deportation case.
That was when the Supreme Court ordered that he be returned to the U.S.
after the government deported him, despite a court order to keep him in the country over fears of gang violence in his native El Salvador.
When he got back, Abrego Garcia was immediately taken into custody.
Those criminal charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop here in Tennessee.
In body camera footage played for the court, Abrego Garcia can be seen driving an SUV with nine other men.
Prosecutors pointed to that as evidence of human smuggling, alleging that Abrego Garcia was paid to drive people who had crossed the border into Texas.
Abrego Garcia's lawyers argued that the government's criminal case was retaliation because of the embarrassment it caused the Trump administration.
After he won his deportation case, he became a sort of galvanizing force for critics of the president's hardline immigration policy.
His lawyers asked the court to dismiss the charges under a vindictive prosecution claim.
I would say yes and no, but it's more yes and maybe.
Essentially, the court found that there was a presumption of vindictive prosecution.
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