A Republican gubernatorial candidate and current U.S. senator from Tennessee called on lawmakers to change the state’s congressional map in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that reversed a section of the Voting Rights Act that was used to create race-based districts.
In a post on X on April 29, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), now running for governor, suggested that state officials move to create a map that entirely favors Republican House members.
“I urge our state Legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It’s essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America,” she wrote on X, including a proposed version of an all-GOP state map….