But that's the tell. The tell is that they know how outrageous it would be for them to decide. Congressional act to rewrite a congressional statute. So when this was done, when the Voting Rights act was first passed through Congress, I would imagine they took great pains to say, but this isn't quotas. We're not advocating quotas. We're not advocating just creating districts so that black people can elect black people. They must have said that a few times. They absolutely did. (11:46–11:55)
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Suggests that the original Voting Rights Act emphasized it was not about creating quotas.
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