At the link. In Nashville, Black legislative leaders said Tuesday their caucus will file a lawsuit challenging Republican redistricting plans if they think the map, which is being drawn in secret, violates the federal Voting Rights Act. Rep. G.A. Hardaway, chairman of the Legislature’s Black Caucus, called on Republicans to include caucus members in helping shape the plan that reapportions and redraws the 99 House and 33 Senate districts to reflect minority voters. “We will sue if it’s not in compliance with the Voting Rights Act as the Black Caucus sees it,” Hardaway said. In a statement, Republican House Speaker Beth Harwell, of Nashville, said it “is well established that one of the many criteria we use in developing redistricting concepts is compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and it would be disingenuous to suggest otherwise. … Our goal has always been to draw fair and legal lines and to get 99 votes in the House.” Republicans have been showing individual Democrats, including black lawmakers, what will happen to them under the redistricting plan, but Hardaway say it is difficult to construct the entire “puzzle” from those pieces.
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