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Tennessee's Republican-controlled legislature passed a new congressional map on May 7, 2026, splitting Memphis — the state's only majority-Black congressional district — into three separate districts, each roughly 29-30% Black. The action came just eight days after the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and has already drawn an emergency lawsuit from the NAACP challenging the map under state constitutional grounds.