More than a thousand gather in Mississippi Capitol to protest redistricting
Demonstrators, including Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, walk from Mississippi's Old Capitol Museum to the new Capitol building to protest redistricting efforts on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (Aarron Fleming/The Daily Memphian)
JACKSON, Miss. — Activists and elected leaders from Mississippi and around the country joined more than a thousand others in the state’s Capitol on Wednesday, May 20 to rally against redistricting efforts in the wake of an April decision by the United States Supreme Court.
The event in Jackson, Mississippi comes on the heels of the higher court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. That 6-3 decision has led to redistricting across multiple states, including Tennessee where a special-called session by the Legislature. That resulted in Memphis split into three districts, each stretching from Shelby County to Middle Tennessee.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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