Marsha Blackburn Proposes Redistricting Tennessee.

[Seymour Flops]

To give all nine seats to Republicans.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/01/gerrymandering-explained-simple-terms-tennessee-redistricting/89874228007/

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a Louisiana congressional map that protected Black voters, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn encouraged state legislatures to hold a special legislative session to redistrict Tennessee's congressional map, providing the GOP with an extra seat.

"I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It's essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America," wrote Blackburn in her post.


I don't see this coming to an end until nearly every state is a one party legislative state. there will be a legislative winner-take-all-system, much like our electoral college system.

I would like to see a constitutional amendment that would end this kind of extreme gerrymandering. But i'm not sure how such an amendment could be worded.

 

[airplanemechanic]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

 

[Winston]

To give all nine seats to Republicans.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/01/gerrymandering-explained-simple-terms-tennessee-redistricting/89874228007/

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a Louisiana congressional map that protected Black voters, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn encouraged state legislatures to hold a special legislative session to redistrict Tennessee's congressional map, providing the GOP with an extra seat.

"I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It's essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America," wrote Blackburn in her post.


I don't see this coming to an end until nearly every state is a one party legislative state. there will be a legislative winner-take-all-system, much like our electoral college system.

I would like to see a constitutional amendment that would end this kind of extreme gerrymandering. But i'm not sure how such an amendment could be worded.

Oh come on. Talk about political theater. Hell, Republicans control eight of nine and the nine is Memphis.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

No balance.

We will come out smelling great.

I hate that this is happening, but it is where we are.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Oh come on. Talk about political theater. Hell, Republicans control eight of nine and the nine is Memphis.

That's the point.

VA did this to counter Texas in spite of the fact that New England is textbook course in gerrymandering.

How the GOP let that go on so long, I don't know.

 

[Winston]

That's the point.

VA did this to counter Texas in spite of the fact that New England is textbook course in gerrymandering.

How the GOP let that go on so long, I don't know.

Oh come on, enough with the blame game, it serves no purpose. Besides, Gerrymandering has been around since the very first Congressional election when Patrick Henry tried to "gerrymander" James Madison out of the first Congress. Yeah, Patrick Henry, Give me Liberty or give me Death but by God, let me always hang on to the right to gerrymander.

But there can be no doubt, now we have gone completely badshit crazy. We have to put some guardrails in place. That used to be the Judicial Branch.

 

[Lisa558]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

“Lean” Dem? Spanberger made it 10-1, favoring Dems.

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[HikerGuy83]

But there can be no doubt, now we have gone completely badshit crazy.

And why?

Because the federal government has become way to large and way to important (in terms of goodies for people).

If it did just what it was supposed to do, it would be a nothingburger.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

We need a national process to determine how states create their districts that requires bipartisan committees to draw them up in each state.

 

[Blaster]

We need a national process to determine how states create their districts that requires bipartisan committees to draw them up in each state.

Bipartisanship has become a thing of the past.

 

[citygator]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

Such a lie.