President Donald Trump’s trade agenda faced another major setback Thursday when the U.S. Court of International Trade handed a win to small businesses and the state of Washington after they challenged the president’s 10% global tariffs.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, who spoke during protests at the Legislature on Tuesday about a new congressional redistricting process, is out with an email today addressing the GOP-drawn new maps.

Hey, if you don't want to listen to me run my mouth, tune in to hear my colleague from @alabamabluedot54.bsky.social, @brianlyman.bsky.social.

BREAKING: The Tennessee Democratic Party, four Tennessee Democrats running for a U.S. House seat and four voters filed a federal challenge Friday to the GOP-led revision of congressional maps eliminating the state’s only majority-Black, majority-Democrat district in Memphis.

The second lawsuit has been filed against the new congressional maps created by Tennessee Republicans, this time in federal court by the Tennessee Democratic Party, four Tennessee Democrats running for a U.S. House seat and four voters. @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports.

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Despite blaring protests and impassioned pleas at the Capitol, the Republican-controlled legislature used a special session this week to change state laws and redraw Tennessee’s congressional district maps, diluting a block of Black Memphis voters to give President Donald Trump one more vote.

"It was a done deal," said House Minority Leader Karen Camper of an expedited plan to redraw Tennessee's congressional districts less than 90 days before the primary election. via @tennesseelookout.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/stoc...

During separate hours-long debates on redistricting in the Tennessee House and Senate on Thursday, Democrats delivered fiery oratory, often invoking the decades-long struggles of Black Tennesseans to secure voting rights. via @tennesseelookout.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tenn...

Hell raising from our neighbors to the south in their redistricting session.👇🏻

Alabama House recessed debate over the primary bill after protestors in the gallery began chanting. One protestor was taken out despite efforts by Reps. Juandalynn Givan and Mary Moore, both D-Birmingham, to intervene on her behalf.

This commentary in @tennesseelookout.com is from Knoxville Minister Gordon Gibson, who is pretty familiar with the price paid to obtain voting rights: "My colleague Jim Reeb was . . . attacked by four white men on the streets of Selma — attacked for the offense of supporting Black voting rights."

NAACP Tennessee President Gloria Sweet-Love filed an emergency petition to stop a new congressional map from going into effect in Davidson County Chancery Court. The lawsuit was filed less than three hours after Gov. Bill Lee signed the new map into law. From @cstephenson.bsky.social.

"72% of the white population is put into one district. 75% of the Black population is carved into two,” Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said. “We are being asked to believe that it’s just the luck of the draw, just happenstance.” Within hours of a new congressional map passing, the NAACP filed suit.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais altered the Voting Rights Act. What does that mean for future elections? Tomorrow, we will address this with reporter @jonshorman.bsky.social and @law.ucla.edu professor @rickhasen.bsky.social. www.newsfromthestates.com/podcast/stor...

That was fast: State Sen. Brent Taylor will run for Congress in Tennessee's new 9th Congressional District:

Boy, this is flex. Retiring Lt. Gov. Randy McNally calls Sen. Charlane Oliver's conduct -- she stood on her desk during a vote that will effectively strip representation from Black Memphis -- unbecoming. Hell of a legacy, sir.

Just in: Reported by @friedmanadam5.bsky.social.

Crowd in Tennessee Capitol is singing "Which side are you?" and hollering at state troopers: "You don't have to do this! You can join us." Democrats are out and speaking to the crowd.

The Tennessee Senate passed new congressional maps and adjourned. Republicans are leaving the chamber amid a tunnel of state troopers and screams.

Senate Democrats are at the front of the chamber. Sen. Charlane Oliver is standing on her desk holding a banner reading "No Jim Crow". State troopers are removing protesters from the gallery. Cacophony outside chambers.

I can't get in Senate Chambers so I'm watching in the monitor outside. All the Democratic women are wearing a white to symbolize suffrage. Senator Jeff Yarbro is also wearing a white tie.

Tennessee Senate debate on redistricting continues. There are about 50 Tennessee Highway Patrol officers lining the hall outside Senate Chambers presumably to provide a pathway for GOP senators on adjournment.

It is so loud in the Tennessee Capitol you can hear the crowd in the tunnel two floors below.

“This is not conservative. This is cowardly. If your agenda cannot survive (when) black voters have a fair representation, then the problem isn't us voting. It is your agenda. Earn the black vote. Black people are not Democrat or Republican," says Tennessee state Sen. London Lamar of Memphis.

Commentary: The Rev. Gordon Gibson writes of his personal experience fighting for the 1965 Voting Rights Act: "My colleague Jim Ree walking next to a close friend of mine when they were attacked by four white men on the streets of Selma . . . (Jim) died a few days later.

The Tennessee House has passed new congressional maps and adjourned. The crowd is roaring. Can't tell if someone pulled the fire alarm or we are hearing sirens. Chaos in the Capitol.

Keshaun Pearson, brother of Memphis Rep. Justin Pearson, was arrested in the Tennessee House gallery for apparently protesting. Photos by John Partipilo.

Tennessee Republicans are moving ahead with a new GOP-dominant congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections. But in a midterm election, where President Donald Trump remains unpopular, the map gives Democrats a slightly better chance at picking up at least two seats.

Willis Lincoln “T.J.” Hardaway, son of the late Tennessee Rep. G.A. Hardaway, will temporarily assume his father’s seat until the next general election in November after the Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved his appointment Wednesday. He was sworn in on Thursday morning.

The Tennessee Legislature is expected to pass new congressional maps during House and Senate sessions this morning. At present, state Rep. Aftyn Behn has gone upstairs to the House gallery and is speaking to spectators protesting the move.

U.S. Rep. John Rose, who is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, has released his first ad in the race: "CEO experience. Tough like Trump." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOth...

As the Tennessee GOP rejiggers the U.S. House map to eliminate the state's only Democrat-majority district in Memphis, they may create new vulnerabilities for their party in other districts. From @friedmanadam5.bsky.social tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/07/v... @tennesseelookout.com

Sekou Franklin, an MTSU political science professor, told a Senate panel Wednesday that major alterations can’t be made at this point in the election cycle because of the potential for “voter confusion” and “chaos." @cstephenson.bsky.social reports.

Follow @jhollymc.bsky.social to know all about the happenings in TN. She is the editor for @tennesseelookout.com providing great journalism for TN.

The better sign this deal within a week or he’s really gonna get mad and give them another month

This actually gave me a much-needed, if rueful, laugh. Jesus wept.

Callais is the Confederacy rearing its ugly head with Governor Landry and the Roberts Court foot soldiers for denying Black Americans equal say in having leaders who actually represent them. Just as people of good will defeated this before so must we rise again.

himself personally lobbying colleagues against the Obama administration’s climate policy riddled with errors, according to Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck, and described by Slate as a “petty vendetta” dressed up in formal letterhead.

outcome was predetermined before arguments concluded. And just two weeks ago, the New York Times published leaked internal memos from 2016 showing Roberts

This is the same court that overturned Roe v. Wade along strict party lines. That gutted the Voting Rights Act. That gave a president near-total immunity for acts committed while in office. That handed down the Dobbs decision after a draft leaked showing the

Roberts went to a judicial conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania today and complained that the public wrongly sees Supreme Court justices as “political actors.” He said people mistakenly think the court makes policy decisions rather than legal ones.

The Appalachian region, encompassing a 206,000 square-mile span from southern New York to northern Mississippi, continues to suffer the highest rate of mortality in the nation from so-called ‘diseases of despair" -- including suicide and drug overdoses-- a new report finds.

My colleagues at the @alabamareflector.com are covering their state's special redistricting: The building is being evacuated for threat of tornado and flooding.

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

This morning, States Newsroom launched Daybreak, a new morning newsletter featuring top stories from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Want to be the first to know the news that affects your community? via @maddyfitz.bsky.social Sign up today:

In 1980 as a 15-year-old, I got a job paging in the Tennessee Senate. (Got my first newspaper writing job the next year.) Over the last 45 years, I've seen corrupt and squirrelly politics, much perpetrated by Democrats when they had power. But this GOP redistricting: Whew. Slick racist politics.

The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Willis Lincoln “T.J.” Hardaway, son of the late Tennessee Rep. G.A. Hardaway, will temporarily assume his father’s seat until the next general election in November after the Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved his appointment Wednesday. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.