Congressional redistricting joins busy political horizon
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., speaks during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee markup on Capitol Hill on Dec. 12, 2019, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP file)
A landmark Supreme Court ruling has put the boundaries for Tennessee’s nine congressional districts in play, especially the Memphis-centric district now represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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