Marianna Bacayau

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 Marianna Bacayau in Nashville.

Prosecutors charged Abrego Garcia with human smuggling based on a two-and-a-half-year-old traffic stop in Tennessee.

In his ruling, Judge Waverly Crenshaw found issue with the delay in prosecution.

Abrego Garcia's federal investigation began only after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to the U.S.,

He also pointed to a senior prosecutor who resigned from the DOJ after his recommendation not to charge Abrego Garcia went unheeded.

For NPR News, I'm Marianna Bacayau in Nashville.

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Prosecutors charged Abrego Garcia with human smuggling based on a two-and-a-half-year-old traffic stop in Tennessee.

In his ruling, Judge Waverly Crenshaw found issue with the delay in prosecution.

Abrego Garcia's federal investigation began only after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to the U.S.

He also pointed to a senior prosecutor who resigned from the DOJ after his recommendation not to charge Abrego Garcia went unheeded.

For NPR News, I'm Marianna Bacayau in Nashville.

Hundreds chanted No Jim Crow 2.0 and shame as lawmakers met to approve new maps splitting Memphis and its majority black voting bloc into three districts, one of which spans nearly 300 miles.

The old district was contained to the city of Memphis.

Republican supporters of the move say it would give the state a chance to have all its nine House members be from the GOP.