the d. c. circuit. and she got all of the votes of the democratic senators and even managed to pull some republican senators. and that was very, very recently. and that has to weigh in her future this is an administration that likely wants an easy time of this and she would be smooth sailing. another potential nominee is justice leondra from the california supreme court. she is a former clerk to justin paul stevens. and she too, i think, would bring a lot of this particular pick. we have not had a state court justice to join the court since justice souter. that would be a different kind of diversity. but diversity nonetheless. and of course there is sherrilyn eiffel and she is currently the president and director of council also and and why you alumna. we have not had a civil rights lawyer on the high court since justice ginsburg and of course, justin marshall, the first african american to join the court. he also served as the president and naacp legal defense i would go a
i think the number is 240 when you count them all. almost all target mail-in voting. senior counsel for the naacp legal defense and education fund which is a participant in this case. mr. ross, thank you for joining us this morning. what s your sense of how this is going to play out? yeah. so thank you for having me. i appreciate it. i think that we re concerned, obviously with the supreme court sort of stepping in after a lower court decision had unanimously, three judges had said in a 2 hun-page opinion that alabama s congressional violates the act and it s nearly 40 years old that when certain benchmarks are met, the voting rights act needs to be changed in a way that allows black voters to have representation to assert with the 27% or so
that follows the rule of law. and that when presented with a decision that is well reasoned, that is thorough as the one that we referred is, the 225 page decision, from a court that spokes to 17 witnesses and evaluated all of the evidence with distribution, unlike what the court did here, where it decided this on its shadow docket, without any arguments or prefer, when the supreme court finally gets this case, a full hearing which black alabamians and every person in this country deserve, we expect that the court will do the right thing, and recognize that this is a clear and blatant violation of the voting rights act. janai nelson we need more discussion about this but thank you for giving us your analysis for tonight, and giving us and the associate director counsel of the naacp legal defense and education fund. another bit of breaking news tonight, about the first cabinet level resignation in the biden