Mitchell Brown of the Lawyers’ Committee said the choice not to file the Tennessee lawsuit earlier helped in part because the attorneys were able to see the results of 2022 elections, during which Black and brown voters' candidates of choice lost by big margins.
Tennessee US House and Senate maps discriminate against communities of color: Lawsuit
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“Black votes were used as political puzzle pieces to insulate the Republicans' hold on power,” said Mitchell Brown, senior counsel for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
Supreme Court weighs whether South Carolina targeted Black voters in redistricting
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