Protesters filled the Tennessee and Alabama capitols this week before either state could finish redrawing congressional maps.
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s map for relying too heavily on race, and three Southern states walked through that door within seven days. In Tennessee, Republicans refused to hold a hearing in Memphis where the targeted district sits, and called in state troopers when protesters filled the Nashville hearing room. Alabama is trying to throw out a court-ordered map that federal judges said had to stay until 2030. Trump posted Sunday that Republicans could pick up twenty House seats.
The fight to undo this won’t be won in six months, but the midterms in November can help answer it. Make the margin so big the new lines can’t save the people who drew them.
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