{"id":344,"date":"2026-05-07T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:20:04","slug":"45e178f5f621530cd51b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymanderingUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesTennessee\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state\u2019s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.The move cracks Tennessee\u2019s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, e<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting\">Read original at The Guardian US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymanderingUS politics live \u2013 latest updatesTennessee\u2019s Republican-dominated legislature passed redi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}