Senator Calls on Tennessee to Create ‘All-GOP Map’ After Supreme Court Ruling

‘I urge our state Legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis,’ Sen. Marsha Blackburn said.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) listens at a news conference on the Supreme Court at the U.S. Capitol on July 19, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

A Republican gubernatorial candidate and current U.S. senator from Tennessee called on lawmakers to change the state’s congressional map in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that reversed a section of the Voting Rights Act that was used to create race-based districts.

In a post on X on April 29, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), now running for governor, suggested that state officials move to create a map that entirely favors Republican House members.