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Of the voting rights act. the issue related to the coverage formula, as you mentioned in your opening, there is a bailout provision that allows jurisdictions to be preempt from the preclearance requirements to the extent they demonstrate hostility no longer exists. in fact, i believe 198 jurisdictions since the passage of the voting rights act have been excluded and exempt. there is flexibility built into the law to make adjustments as change things. >> there's a provision for if you can establish for ten years you haven't had issues, can you get out of it. there's a lot more on this we want t...

About the continued pervasive racial discrimination that's going on in the covered jurisdictions about the flexibility of the coverage formula and the mechanism for deciding who's covered. and about how there are ways to address voting discrimination outside of the covered jurisdictions. i think the -- >> let's keep this simple. you're a lawyer. you're lawyering me here. >> i'm sorry. >> the bottom line is if you're black out there and you want to vote and you live in pennsylvania and they've been screwing around with voter i.d. cards or you live in florida and they're screwing around getting ...

Entitlement is going to be controversial. back to the vote, the two justices that are most critical. we could assume justice scalia was going to oppose it. justice kennedy and justice roberts, everything seemed to be hostile that the coverage formula was the right one to keep. what several of the justices said is the problem with the law, it's reverse engineered. it's back word looking. it can't forward looking enough on where the problems still are. that's why i say i think there are five votes to modify the voting rights act in some way that would be a very serious blow to it. >> thank you t...

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