A bill that left the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday seeks to reduce the influence a Nashville court plays in hearing constitutional challenges after it issued an election ruling last year. In this screenshot of Tennessee’s state Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday, state Senator Mike Bell discusses his proposal to create a statewide chancery court to hear lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the state’s statutes. (Image via Courthouse News). (CN) — Tennessee statute directs the Davidson County Chancery Court in downtown Nashville to hear lawsuits challenging state law. But after a judge issued a ruling on voting by mail during the pandemic last year, some of the state’s Republican lawmakers want the venue hearing constitutional challenges to change.