TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 18, 2026

Last week, the NAACP and the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the redistricting map passed by the state legislature discriminates against Black voters, the Nashville Banner newsletter reports. Two weeks ago, on the same day the legislature passed the map, the NAACP filed a similar lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court. The new complaint addresses the fact that the new map splits Memphis, the state’s biggest hub of Black voters, into three congressional districts. Like the other lawsuits filed against the state since the end of the special legislative session, the complaint seeks an injunction against implementation of the new map. In related news, the Daily Memphian reports that the state has tapped Consovoy McCarthy, the Virginia law firm central to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning affirmative action in college admissions in 2023, to help defend the new congressional map in court.