Blackburn, Rose call to ‘flip Memphis’ in wake of Supreme Court ruling
Two Republican candidates for Tennessee governor, John Rose (left) and Marsha Blackburn, are calling for congressional redistricting to eliminate the state’s only Democratic seat. (AP files)
The calls to eliminate Tennessee’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat follow Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changes the Civil Rights Act standards for drawing legislative districts.
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U.S. Supreme Court redistricting Civil Rights Act Marsha Blackburn John Rose Raumesh Akbari Justin J. Pearson Steve Cohen 2026 electionsBill Dries on demand
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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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