A group of Tennessee voting and civil rights advocates says it won't refile a federal lawsuit alleging that Tennessee’s U.S. House map and the boundaries for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.
In a news release Friday, the plaintiffs whose lawsuit was dismissed last month said their efforts in court were facing “new, substantial and unjust standards to prove racial gerrymandering” under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that involved South Carolina ’s political maps.
The plaintiffs said they are urging people to vote in the Nov. 5 election, noting the state’s low rankings in turnout. The registration deadline is Oct. 7 and early voting begins Oct. 16. , a move that critics claimed was done to dilute the power of Black voters and other communities of color in one of the state’s few Democratic strongholds.
In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disputes over partisan gerrymandering of congressional and legislative districts are none of its business, limiting those claims to state courts under their own constitutions and laws. Most recently, the high court upheld South Carolina’s congressional map in a 6-3 decision that said the state General Assembly did not use race to draw districts based on the 2020 Census., claiming he couldn’t win under the new layout. Ultimately, Rep.
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