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requires, i, mean requires the state, to give black folks a shot at this level of representation. and the state of alabama is in violation of it. >> exactly. exactly. and this is something that alabama is arguing that, look, this is the way we've always done. -- since 1972. if you go back to 1972, george wallace was -- literacy tests, and black voters were just becoming registered to vote in large numbers. that's when alabama decided to start making decisions that made it even more difficult for black voters to have representation in congress. >> what are the ramifications? we've seen various portions of the act whittled away, got it, by the conservatives on this court. what are the implications here for this case for the section two of the voting rights act? what would it mean if the plaintiffs here were to lose? >> you know, section two of the voting rights act is, you know,