you can see the justification for that is that if you wait until after the election, the harm has already been done. you can't undo the damage to black voters and their political power after the fact and so when you have black voters only able to represent -- to elect about 14% of the political power in that state, and they are 28% of the voting population in the state, it's a clear imbalance and the court not speaking out on it early enough will just allow, you know, ariane you may be right. next fall they might say, alabama, you can keep doing what you're doing but not hearing that before the election is really significant. >> and it's part of an evolution, especially in the southern states that were subject once to a stronger voting rights act. it's been diluted. you have systemic discrimination. and republican control. republicans winning the elections. they have the lurths, the governor and drawing maps in their favor. the smamap is not all that different from the map ten years