edmond pettus bridge, but it feels to me like we are in a moment where the idea of civil rights or the civil rights struggle is politicized more than ever. >> i think it's important to remember what's playing out in this realm that's really not part of the political debate right now. alabama is the source of merrill v. milligan. in the supreme court right now, they heard this case in october. the supreme court is about to decide an section 2 of the voting rights act. the voting rights act passed in 1965, right after john lewis. and his army for civil rights marched across the edmond pettus bridge. now the supreme court is about to decide whether to gut section 2 of the civil rights act. now, alabama has seven congressional gnat districts. it used to have two black-represented districts. alabama republicans made sure that that's now only one. and now the question is, does that stand? it's taking place in alabama right now. and this court has already gut its section 5 of the voting rights act. that very law that passed right