Nick Corasaniti
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first heard Apr 2026
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Exactly.
Now, they would be in a pretty tight sprint, but with some dramatic action in the state legislature in support of the current governor, they would be able to redraw their maps ahead of the midterms.
So this district in the southwestern part of the state is the lone Democratic district in Tennessee.
It encompasses Memphis and is a majority minority district with roughly 60 percent of a black voting age population and a major black population city like Memphis in there.
So if Republicans were to take a ruthless gerrymander to that city, they'd be splitting apart these black voters into a number of other Republican districts.
Got it.
Yeah, and there's also the cartographical challenge, to use a multi-syllable word there, where when a district is in the corner of a state, it's a lot harder to carve up than if it were in the middle, and you could split it apart like a piece of pie.
So there are both calendar challenges.
geographical challenges and time challenges in Tennessee.
Right.
But Republicans also have a very immediate use of this ruling when it comes to new maps in the midterms, and that's in Florida.
Now, earlier this week, Governor Ron DeSantis introduced a new map, and it's in a very aggressive gerrymander.
It would eliminate four of the eight Democratic districts currently in the state.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a significant redrawing of the state's political divisions.
Now, in justifying drawing new maps, Governor DeSantis had pointed to this looming decision before the court as a reason that the state needed to redraw its maps ahead of the midterms.
Exactly.
And so today, Republicans in the state legislature passed these new maps.
And while it's likely that they will see a legal challenge from Democrats, they now have a new decision from the Supreme Court to point to in their legal battle to ensure that these four new Republican-leaning districts are indeed in place for the midterms.
Exactly right, at least on the federal level.
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