Shortly after Tennessee passed a redistricting map, Republican State Sen. Brent Taylor announced his bid for District 9's seat.

On day two of Tennessee's special session, the GOP proposed its ambitious redraw linking Memphis and the greater Nashville area in two separate districts.

Republicans in Tennessee’s state legislature released a new congressional map on Wednesday that would split Memphis’s congressional district and possibly give the GOP an additional seat. The map reveal follows President Donald Trump’s conversation with Gov.

Tennessee state lawmakers are in session Thursday morning to vote on the new congressional map of Tennessee proposed by Republicans. This comes after Governor Bill Lee called for a special session to review the state’s congressional districts on Friday.

Alabama filed an emergency appeal at the US Supreme Court on Friday asking the justices to allow the state to revert to a congressional map with one majority-Black district, setting up a potentially thorny question for the high court as the justices have openly sparred over whether partisanship has played a role in its redistricting decisions.

Republican lawmakers passed a bill that would set up special primary elections if they are allowed to implement new maps after the U.S. Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling.

Alabama Republicans on Friday approved legislation directing the governor to schedule new primary elections for certain races under a GOP-friendly congressional map — if the courts agree to lift an