TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Nov 22, 2023

A special three-judge panel of state court judges has found Tennessee state Senate district boundaries are unconstitutional, the Tennessean reports, giving the General Assembly until Jan. 31 to redraw the lines. Three voters, backed by the state Democratic party, sued Tennessee in 2022 over allegations that legislative Republicans unconstitutionally drew House and Senate maps to further entrench the GOP supermajority in the legislature.  The judicial panel sided with the state on the House map, with two of the three judges ruling it met constitutional requirements. Read the decision.