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WASHINGTON \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday night that Alabama Republican leaders may redraw their congressional voting districts to oust a Black Democrat and elect a white Republican.<\/p>\n

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The court\u2019s conservatives, who ruled for Louisiana Republicans in a redistricting dispute, extended that decision to Alabama. The three liberals dissented. <\/p>\n

The decision clears the way for the governor and state lawmakers to redraw their congressional voting map with six districts that favor Republicans and one that favors a Democrat. <\/p>\n

\u201cWeeks ago, I warned that vacating the District Court\u2019s injunction in these cases would \u2018unleash chaos and … confuse voters,\u2019 \u201d Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent. \u201cYet just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The justices granted an emergency appeal that was backed by the Trump administration and set aside the decision of a three-judge panel in Alabama. <\/p>\n

The court in a brief opinion said the three judges should not have blocked Alabama\u2019s new map.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile federal courts should not impose changes close to an election, states are free to decide for themselves whether last-minute changes to an election are in their best interests,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n

Alabama\u2019s emergency appeal went to Justice Clarence Thomas, who referred it to the full court.<\/p>\n

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Those three judges, two of them Trump appointees, ruled that Alabama\u2019s state lawmakers discriminated against Black voters, who made up a near majority in the center of the state. <\/p>\n

Three years ago, the Supreme Court agreed.<\/p>\n

In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the justices upheld the creation of a second district in the center of the state where Black voters had a near majority. <\/p>\n

The result then was an Alabama state voting map that favored five Republicans and two Democrats for the House of Representatives. <\/p>\n

But last month, in the wake of the Louisiana decision, Alabama\u2019s lawmakers went back to court, arguing that the state may return to the voting map with only a single Black majority district. <\/p>\n

In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Alabama\u2019s Atty. Gen. Steven Marshall argued that the high court\u2019s decision in favor of Louisiana \u201cvindicates Alabama position on the lawfulness\u201d of its earlier voting map. He said the state should not be penalized for \u201crefusing to intentionally discriminate\u201d to favor Black voters.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s decision has cleared the way for Republican-led states in the South to flip congressional districts in Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and now Alabama.<\/p>\n

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