NEW: Red State Pledges To Get Rid Of Its Lone Blue District As Trump Urges GOP To ‘Push Hard!’

Tennessee Republican leaders are discussing the possibility of redrawing the state’s congressional districts following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The latest ruling pertained case involving Louisiana’s congressional map and has prompted several Republican-led states to review their own redistricting plans. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which included a second majority-Black district, constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, in which he stated that compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act could not justify the state’s use of race-based redistricting in this instance. The decision effectively narrowed t