re: #15 EPR-radar

But even the bare numbers effectively make the point that pretending that nothing has been looked at since the 60s or 70s is just a lie.

This is from the reauthorization that Congress did in 2006.

I know, but I also know that Congress didn’t really examine the situation on the ground, only the politics. As a practical matter, it was impossible for the Republicans in Congress to propose a change to Section 4, because no matter what change they proposed they would have been attacked as racists. Given the additional internet rumor mongering that black people were going to lose their right to vote (don’t yell at me, because chain emails saying just that were circulating), the Congress ordered s narrative crafted to justify a political decision. It did not really evaluate the situation.