Thursday on “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) claimed GOP-led state legislatures like Alabama were targeting race with their redrawn congressional maps.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) approved the once-a-decade redistricting maps on Sunday, splitting the state’s capital, Nashville, into multiple congressional seats, a move that would help Republicans likely secure another seat.
Vulnerable Tennessee Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper announced Tuesday he would retire from Congress after 16 terms, making him the twenty-ninth House Democrat to announce plans to leave the House after this year.
Tennessee’s once-in-a-decade redistricting maps are expected to be approved by the state’s General Assembly sometime this week, and Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper (TN) has reportedly considered retirement instead of running in a tough reelection.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the campaign arm for House Republicans, announced an expansion to the list of Democrat House seats they hope to flip in the upcoming midterm elections, where the majority in the House of Representatives are on the line.
Democrat Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper taunted Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during Monday’s House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing.
John Cooper won 35 percent of the votes in Thursday’s Nashville mayoral election, setting himself up for a September 12 runoff with Mayor David Briley.
Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen failed to persuade the great people of Tennessee on Tuesday. The race was called for Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) at around 8:05 pm. She handily defeated her
Pop superstar Taylor Swift used her American Music Awards acceptance speech Tuesday night to urge the audience “to get out the vote,” just days after endorsing Democrats in Tennessee.
Just months after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill barring K-12 teachers from being armed for self-defense, Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-9) is pushing a tax on firearms to pay for school security.
Proposition 47, the prime mover for increased crime rates in California as Breitbart News reported on Thursday, is responsible for a huge decrease in crucial DNA collection for law enforcement agencies.
Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) lost it on Rep. Jim Cooper for for calling his hearing a “partisan” “kangaroo court.”
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