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A lawsuit, filed in federal court, argues that the new map is unconstitutional because it was approved too close to the August primaries.
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A recent Supreme Court ruling makes it much harder to argue that a map illegally dilutes Black voting power. Tennessee has since broken up a predominantly Black district.
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Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a new congressional map into law on Thursday that slices up Memphis to scatter Black voters into neighboring districts, a move intended to eliminate the state's last Democratic House seat.
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