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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted her conservative colleagues for \u201cdisregarding both democratic values and the rule of law\u201d in a blistering dissent to a decision allowing Alabama to eliminate a majority-Black district at the 11th hour. <\/p>\n

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The justices voted 6-3 to grant an emergency request filed by Republican officials to use a congressional map in this year\u2019s midterms that was approved in 2023 but had never been used because a lower court found the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters. <\/p>\n

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After the Supreme Court instructed the lower court to revisit its decision in light of an April ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a three-judge panel of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump appointees again found on May 26 that the map was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But in an , the Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the lower court\u2019s decision on the grounds that the judges hadn\u2019t adhered closely enough to the VRA ruling, Louisiana v. Callais<\/i>. <\/p>\n

The conservative justices also accused the lower court of interfering with Alabama\u2019s maps despite the election being \u201cimminent,\u201d saying that states can decide to make last-minute changes to their elections, but federal courts should not \u201calter the election rules on the eve of an election.\u201d <\/p>\n

The state\u2019s primaries were originally supposed to take place on May 19, but Alabama\u2019s Republican leaders suspended the election while they raced to take advantage of Callais <\/i>to eliminate one of the state\u2019s two majority-Black districts and boost Republicans\u2019 chances in six of the state\u2019s seven districts. <\/p>\n

In her dissent, Obama-appointee Sotomayor wrote that the conservative justices had rejected an \u201corderly election, held under a tried-and-tested congressional map\u201d and instead chose \u201ca chaotic election, held under a never-before-used congressional map that intentionally discriminates against Black Alabamians.\u201d <\/p>\n

The new map will require state officials to change the voter registrations of hundreds of thousands of voters in a matter of days, despite Alabama previously saying the task would take months, added Sotomayor, who was joined in her dissent by liberal justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. <\/p>\n

Alabama also adopted the map \u201cin unashamed defiance of a prior court order directly affirmed by this Court,\u201d Sotomayor wrote. <\/p>\n

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In 2023, the Supreme Court upheld a ruling rejecting another Alabama map drawn in 2021 that eliminated a majority-Black district. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos,\u201d Sotomayor wrote. <\/p>\n

The April 29 decision in Callais <\/i>struck down Louisiana\u2019s political map and set off a rush across the South to overturn maps that had been drawn to comply with the VRA, the Civil Rights-era law restricting racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting in former Jim Crow states.<\/p>\n

The conservative justices then voted to allow the decision to take effect immediately, even though primary ballots had already been sent to military and overseas voters. <\/p>\n

The decisions set off a torrent of criticism accusing the conservative bloc of a hypocritical \u201craw exercise of power,\u201d with the court appearing to intervene to help flailing Republicans in the midterms even as the justices admonished lower courts for interfering with electoral maps drawn by state legislatures. <\/p>\n

Those complaints are only likely to intensify with Tuesday\u2019s ruling. <\/p>\n

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In a statement, Alabama\u2019s Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall praised the decision as \u201ca major victory for Alabama and the principle of self-governance.\u201d <\/p>\n

The NAACP blasted the order \u201cfor continuing to unleash chaos in our democratic process\u201d and said the court had given Alabama approval \u201cto use a congressional map that had previously been found to be intentionally discriminatory.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a Court that is stripping Black voters of power and voice at a speed that would put Jim Crow jurists to shame. Our message to communities remains the same\u2014the best way to express dissent is by showing up at the ballot box this election season,\u201d NAACP general counsel Kristen Clarke said in a statement, as reported by NBC News. <\/p>\n

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