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The Morning Wire.
I am so excited to share the news with you.
I guess I'm thinking of it, of the fact that remedial action absent discriminatory intent is really not a new idea in the civil rights laws.
And my kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA.
Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities.
And so it was discriminatory in effect because these folks were not able to access
these buildings.
The idea in Section 2 is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have equal access to the voting system, right?
They're disabled.
In fact, we use the word disable in Milligan.
We say that's a way in which you see that these processes are not equally open.