(NASHVILLE) – Tennessee’s highest court temporarily blocks a lower court’s decision that lawmakers must redraw the state’s Senate maps…in a ruling that means the current legislative districts will likely remain in place for the 2024 elections.
Late last month, a panel of judges ruled that the Republican-drawn map violated the state Constitution…because lawmakers incorrectly numbered the seats in left-leaning Nashville. The numbers are important because they determine the years those seats are on the ballot.
The same trial judges ruled to temporarily block the Senate map in 2022, but the Supreme Court reinstated the districts then as well, reasoning that it was too close to the election.