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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (in case citations, M.D. Tenn.) is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee. Based at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Nashville, it was created in 1839 when Congress added a third district to the state.
Summary of the November 8, 2022 Tennessee Senate election results Party Candidates Votes Seats No. % Before Up Won After +/– Republican: 15 546,264 70.64 27 13 13 27 Democratic: 10 207,273 26.81 6 4 4 6 Independent: 3 19,716 2.55 0 0 0 0 Total: 773,253 100.00 33 17 17 33 Source:
On February 24, 1807, Congress again abolished the two districts and created the United States Circuit for the District of Tennessee. On March 3, 1837, Congress assigned the judicial district of Tennessee to the Eighth Circuit. On June 18, 1839, by 5 Stat. 313, Congress divided Tennessee into three districts, Eastern, Middle, and Western.
The Tennessee congressional maps are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which in 2022 drew maps to ‘crack’ the Democratic stronghold of Nashville across three otherwise Republican districts, ensuring three Republican representatives, despite Nashville’s strong Democratic ...
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District 17 covers rural and suburban and urban Middle Tennessee. It covers all of Wilson and the eastern part of Davidson County. Communities in the district includes Mount Juliet, Lebanon, Green Hill and part of Nashville. [3] The district is located within Tennessee's 5th and 6th congressional districts. [4]
The Tennessee House of Representatives requires a two-thirds majority of the total membership to expel another representative. [7] Since the Civil War , ten representatives have been expelled. [ 8 ] Six representatives were expelled in 1866 for attempting to prevent passage of the 14th Amendment , which granted citizenship to former slaves . [ 9 ]
On July 13, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Campbell to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. On September 6, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination.