It was extraordinary, all right.
In three days earlier this week, a so-called extraordinary session of the Tennessee General Assembly, without transparency and without all deliberate speed, altered state law and then pushed through a redistricting map that will give Republicans a good shot at representing each of the state’s nine congressional districts.
It was a gift that President Donald Trump asked for from Gov. Bill Lee, and he and the supermajority Republicans were only too happy to deliver it.
(IN THE NEWS: Tennessee lawmakers pass US House map carving up majority-Black district in Memphis)
But was it right?