TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jun 17, 2026

The same day Democratic plaintiffs dropped their lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new U.S. House map, the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP petitioned a federal judicial panel to block the map while its case proceeds, the Tennessee Lookout reports. The motion seeking an injunction argues that the map violates the 14th and 15th amendments and constitutes intentional racial discrimination designed to dilute the voting power of Black voters in Memphis. The suit has been consolidated with a challenge filed by the League of Women Voters and is one of two cases still pending against the map. A separate state lawsuit filed by the NAACP was dismissed last month. The other remaining challenge, filed by the ACLU, also alleges the map unlawfully discriminates against Black voters.