TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 4, 2024

When a federal judicial panel dismissed a challenge to Tennessee's redistricting plans for the U.S. House of Representatives and state Senate, it gave the plaintiffs 30 days to refile an amended complaint. The panel had found that while the maps were consistent with "racial gerrymander," they also were "consistent with a political gerrymander." The judges said the group, including the NAACP, would need to provide stronger evidence that legislators knew the maps would harm Democratic voters, including minority voters. The Associated Press reports on the decision not to refile. The refiling period expired Wednesday with official dismissal of the case.