the united states. what the supreme court did today i think was not only an act of judicial overreach, but it was a real betrayal of minority voters in this country and it was a slap in the face to congress because congress reauthorized the act in 2006. they amassed a 15,000-page record. they looked rigorously at not just what happened in 1965 or 1975, or 1982 when the voting rights act was reauthorized, but they looked at what had been happening in the covered jurisdictions under the voting rights act up until 2006 and they determined that the act had to be reauthorized and that the coverage formula was appropriate to protect minority voting. the supreme court today has essentially thrown out the 15,000-page record that congress amassed and has essentially said that 98 senators, and 390 representatives in the house, acted irrationally when they reauthorized the voting rights act in 2006.