Uproar in Tennessee after new congressional map is approved that erases majority Black district ^⁠95%

5/8/2026, 12:26:32 PM

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CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe who is covering the new congressional maps just approved in Tennessee.

Chaos at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville Thursday as Democratic lawmakers and protesters tried to stop legislation breaking up the state's only Democratic House seat.

Yelling, holding signs, calling the move Jim Crow 2.0, even burning a printout of the Confederate flag.

The change follows a Supreme Court ruling last week that narrowed the Voting Rights Act.

CBS News election law analyst David Becker says the ruling has this effect.

And in some cases that's going to mean that they blanch their entire state's delegation and really minimize the impact of the minority population in the state.

That's the concern for Democratic Congressman Terri Sewell Figures in Montgomery, Alabama where a similar pending Supreme Court decision could draw his majority black district off the map.

So what that translates into is this.

It's okay to discriminate against Democrats who are black, but it's not okay to discriminate against black Democrats.

Doesn't make a lot of sense.

Alabama's attorney general says it's just a question of reflecting the state's Republican tilt.

Alabama is a conservative state.

I expect it will have conservative representatives.

Civil rights activist Doris Crenshaw who at 12 years old started working on civil rights issues with Rosa Parks was at an information session hosted by Congressman Figures Thursday night.

You've spent your entire life working for more representation.

And they may be on the verge of taking it away.

It does not sit well and it shouldn't sit well with the people of goodwill in this country.

As of yet nothing has changed here in Alabama.

The Supreme Court may rule by today but whether or not the state can actually change its map now that Tennessee has acted.

Nine Republican or Democratic controlled states across the country have redrawn their maps.

Three more here in the deep south Errol are set to begin debating doing so in the coming weeks.

A massive issue across the country Errol Keith across all of it.

Errol thank you.

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Uproar in Tennessee after new congressional map is approved that erases majority Black district ^⁠95%

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Uproar in Tennessee after new congressional map is approved that erases majority Black district ^⁠95%