Now they didn't say that. That's what they're doing, but they're saying we now need to return to intentional discrimination, that, no, you have to be Able to prove it in the way that you had to before the amendments that Congress made. That is correct. And I should point out something else. After Congress amended the Section 2 in 1982, of course it was challenged, and it went up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court upheld it in Thornburg versus jingles in 1986. (10:45–10:51)
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Asserts that the Supreme Court requires proof of intentional discrimination as before the 1982 amendments to Section 2.
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