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Marsha Blackburn, one of the most fervently anti-voting voices in the Senate, won Tennessee’s Republican gubernatorial primary Thursday, likely sending her to the governor’s mansion in the deep-red state this November.
To overcome Trump’s attempts to cheat the elections, Kamala Harris told the Urban League that voter turnout has to be so large that it’s “too big to rig.”
A three-judge panel Thursday denied the plaintiffs, Black voters and allied organizations, a motion for a preliminary injunction that would have paused a gerrymandered map’s effect before midterm elections.
Federal judges appeared skeptical in a hearing Thursday of pro-voting groups’ arguments that Tennessee Republicans intentionally diluted Black voting power through their recent aggressive gerrymander.
The CBC’s Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) has pulled support of the SCORE Act, which he helped draft, due to the GOP’s redistricting war impacts on his state.
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The NAACP and a coalition of pro-voting groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Tennessee’s new Republican congressional gerrymander that dismantled the state’s only majority-Black district just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act.
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) removed Democratic lawmakers from House committees Tuesday after they protested the GOP’s newly enacted congressional gerrymander that eliminated the state’s lone majority-Black district.
Tennessee’s congressional gerrymander, which wiped out the state’s only Black-majority district, has drawn another lawsuit.
As legislatures rammed through unfair redraws, Black elected leaders and voters tried to show the world how Republicans are rolling back their civil rights.
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