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Cohen on ‘shameful’ Tennessee redistricting erasing his House district: ‘Next stop is the courts’
BY SARAH FORTINSKY - 05/07/26 5:30 PM ET
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) vowed legal action after Tennessee passed a new House map that carves up his majority-Black House congressional district in an effort to flip his seat red in November.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5868749-cohen-trump-redistricting-fight/
Democratic lawmakers and local leaders in Memphis are already mobilizing against the potential gerrymander, framing it as an attack on Black
Yunior Rivas at Democracy Docket:
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) called a special legislative session Friday to review and redraw the state’s congressional map — targeting a majority-Black district in Memphis in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. And local Democrats are mobilizing for the fight. “We have to defend Black representation and our ability to elect Black people to positions of power,” state Rep. Justin Pearson said at a Friday rally. “Because that is what was fought for.” Lee said in the statement that the legislature would convene in special session to review the map following “renewed nationwide action around congressional representation.”
Within days of the Callais ruling, top Republicans — including President Donald Trump and Sen. Marsha Blackburn — began publicly urging Tennessee lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional lines, a move that could turn the state’s current 8-1 Republican delegation into a 9-0 GOP sweep. Blackburn, who is running for governor in 2026, seized on the ruling Wednesday.
“I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis,” Blackburn wrote. “It’s essential to cement Trump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America.” In a separate statement, Blackburn said a new gerrymander “should yield another conservative seat” and told the legislature to act “as soon as possible” to implement a new map ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Trump later weighed in, claiming he had spoken with Lee. “I had a very good conversation with Governor Bill Lee, of Tennessee, this morning, wherein he stated that he would work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw in the Congressional Maps of the Great State of Tennessee.” Trump wrote. “Likewise, all of the other Political Representatives of Tennessee have promised to do so. This should give us one extra seat. Thank you Governor Lee — PUSH HARD!”
At the center of the push is Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District — a Memphis-based, majority-Black district that represents the state’s only Democratic seat and had long been protected under the Voting Rights Act. Republican proposals would likely “crack” Memphis — splitting its heavily Democratic voters across multiple Republican-leaning districts — similar to what lawmakers did to Nashville in 2022.
The result could be a 9-0 Republican congressional delegation in a state where about a third of voters supported Democrats in recent elections.
Tennessee Republicans move to make their already rigged 8-1 GOP-favored map even more rigged by seeking to eliminate the Memphis-based Democratic seat held by Rep. Steve Cohen (D) to make it a 9-0 GOP-favored map with the intent to deprive Memphis of real representation and harm Black voters in Memphis as a result of Callais.
Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced Friday that he's retiring from Congress at the end of this term after his district in Mem
No matter how many times I look up his actual picture, when I try to imagine Steve Cohen my brain always provides me with Larry Duberman instead.
Honestly…. in terms of VIBES my brain is onto something. Sorry dude, buying the Mets cannot retroactively make you cool in high school.
Steve Cohen
🚨 DEMOCRAT REP. STEVE COHEN: "They're arresting people simply for the offense of being in the country illegally!!"
FACT CHECK: True! ✅
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Just to bring tonight's posting back on theme for this blog here are some backstage pictures from Madison Square Garden in 2019
