Some Tennesseans get ready to cast votes in state legislature race with no names on the ballot
Whoever gets the most write-in votes will win the statehouse seat in November.
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Marsha Blackburn, leading anti-voting voice in Senate, wins Tennessee GOP governor primary
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.
Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
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.”
Court refuses to stop Tennessee’s gerrymander
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.
Judges look likely to uphold Tennessee GOP’s aggressive gerrymander
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.
CBC blocks SCORE Act vote on college athlete pay in response to GOP’s southern redistricting wave
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: The GOP’s rush to kill off Black political power continues — but there’s also reason for hope
At Democracy Docket, we’re proud of the enterprise journalism we publish. But some weeks, our focus is simply on keeping our readers up to date with what’s happening.
Voting rights groups accuse Tennessee GOP of racially targeting Black voters in latest gerrymander lawsuit
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 Republicans strip Democrats from committees after protesting anti-Black gerrymander
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 gerrymander ‘unlawfully targeted Black voters,’ new lawsuit claims
Tennessee’s congressional gerrymander, which wiped out the state’s only Black-majority district, has drawn another lawsuit.
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