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That tells me there is racially polarized voting in that municipality, which means whites don't vote for African Americans, at election time.

And if private citizens, these good people in the audience today, wanted to bring a Section 2 lawsuit challenging 2021 redistricting, wouldn't it cost millions of dollars to do that?

But now the State of Alabama won't have to do that. So Alabama can just implement some maps. They can pack black voters into the 7th District or they can crack the black communities.

Now, with seven congressional districts, it appears to me that, perhaps, Alabama may be entitled to pick up an extra majority minority district, if the lines are drawn appropriately and fairly.

Which suggests to me, and you correct me if I am wrong, it suggests to me that the legislature counter has unfettered ability now to manipulate the maps, unlike they have been able to do in the past?

Let me finally ask you this. Let's take a bigger case.

Thank you for all the work that you have done in the voting rights space.

The default is not enfranchisement. The default is that you have to prove that you are eligible and deserve to vote.

I don't understand the public interest in purging an inactive voter.

If you sell cocaine, you go to prison for four years. You get out of prison. You are a convicted felon.

Are you saying that, in order for a convicted felon to register to vote, they must completely satisfy their monetary obligation to the court?

This is building a Congressional record so that we can protect the right to vote in the United States of America.

In 2013, in the Shelby County case... we were dealt a severe blow by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Section 5 was limited to several Southern States in their entirety.

The first thing the act did was to eliminate the literacy test.

The Voting Rights Act was enacted several days after I finished high school in 1965. It was a very powerful piece of legislation.

We are engaged in a very serious process of collecting evidence that will either support or refute claims of voter suppression.

At the beginning of this Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked among our Democratic Caucus and looked for one to lead this Subcommittee...