With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee Republicans rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Protesters disrupted the legislative session in anger, prompting a swift adjournment.

The move follows a Supreme Court ruling removing Voting Rights Act protections for majority-minority districts.

The Tennessee state legislature on Thursday passed a redistricting map that eliminates the state's last Democrat-leaning, Black-majority district.

An April Supreme Court ruling has caused a scrambled in some southern states to redistrict before November's midterm elections.

Journalist Ari Berman and Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson on the right’s “power grab” in the South.

Legislature has eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee Republicans rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.